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Soqotri Lexicon
يهَوحَارو، شُوحَارو
ʸhouḥároʰ or šouḥároʰ (du. ʸhouḥaróti or šouḥaróti, pl. ʸhouḥaréten or šouḥaréten)
basic morphological information
text examples
1. ṭáhɛrk di-ḳáˁar díˀʸho di-ḥéľoʰ wa-kések boḳ ṭeʸh šouḥéroʰ ses trɔ mugšími šeḳéyyi ‘I went to visit the house of my aunt and found there a certain woman with two nasty boys’ (Naumkin et al. 2015a:32)
2. díˀʸho šouḥέroʰ ṭahέroʰ ṭeʸh ˁénoʰ wa-ḥan ḳéyhon kέrhe betáˁľin wa-šin múgšem ‘One year, my wife was away (one day), and it was when we were young and newly married, and we had one son only’ (Bulakh et al. 2021:274)
morphological notes
Morphologically, this is a diminutive form.
root
derivates
- ʸhέḥar 1. man; 2. husband
etymology
Proto-MSA *šaḫar- old man