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Soqotri Lexicon
حَتْسَم
ḥátsam (yáḥtsom/ľáḥtésɛm or ľáḥtsɛm)
basic morphological information
text examples
ˁámok féreˁ kor yeˁóumor tóʸhen ḷe-streʰ di-ˁaríš wa-tóˀo éraḥk ḳáˁar ˁímɛr énhi íľyaˁ ľheʰ féreˁ yáḥtsem wa-tóˀo ḷezgód farˁ men ḥóʸhi yáḥtsom men tóˀo néḥe beʸh šéyhom wa-ṭáhɛm béne ‘I collected some palm branches to put them upon a hut. When I came home, I was told: “These branches are bad, theywill crumble into dust”. And indeed when a palm branch is taken up from the ground, it collapses into dust because the heat of the sun has burnt it and because it is very old’ (Bulakh 2024:170)
root
derivates
- ḥsom to crush, to break into many parts (transitive)
etymology
The source verb is (Ia) ḥsom ‘to crush, to break into many parts (transitive)’.