n. (f.)

a. sέrɛd še bɛr óˀoz mέḷḥeʰ di-ˁéyyek ḷeŝkέfš wa-ʸheʰ yefóred ‘I used to have a kid born of a house-goat, and I needed to block its mouth to stop it from suckling, but it always fled’ (CSOL I 18:37)

b. záˁayk díˀʸho érhon ľheʰ maḷḥóyten wa-ľheʰ ferhéten éẓ̂bɛyk ˁánsen ‘I took along with me the goats accustomed to stay in the living compound. As for the semi-wild ones, I left them as they were’ (Naumkin et al. 2016b:69)

While usually applied to goats, méľḥe and mέḷḥeʰ can occasionally be used about other animals, as in CSOL II 22:1 (a tame donkey)

dim. meḷaḥáyoʰ (du. meḷaḥayóti, pl. meḷaḥayéten) (Bulakh 2022:206, 210)

Homonymous with mέḷḥeʰ ‘jaw’.

• šéḷḥe 1. to be low; 2. to be deep
• ḷéḥe to join a kid to a goat other than its mother for suckling
• ľeḥé downwards
• ľáḥi feeding a kid goat
• méľḥe a kid sucking from a goat other than its mother
• méľḥe a male goat accustomed to stay in the living compound
• éḷḥe to lower, to make deep