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Soqotri Lexicon
بٞيْن
beyn
basic morphological information
text examples
a. wa-trɔ ke-maˁteẓ̂áni wa-ṭeʸh rebénoʰ binítši ‘(And when) two love each other, and consent is between them’ (Naumkin–Kogan 2021:528);
b. dáˁwaʰ beyn triʰ ḳabíľati wa-béneʰ ḳabíľeʰ ṭeʸh bustán ‘There was a lawsuit (over a parcel of land) between two tribes, and one tribe built a fenced palm-grove (on the disputed land)’ (Bulakh et al. 2021:253)
morphological notes
The stem binít- is used before nouns and pronominal suffixes in plural. Note the example a for binít- with Soqotri 3 du. suff.
other notes
Borrowed from Arabic. Cf. bin, probably also an Arabism.
root
etymology
PWS *bayna between