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Soqotri Lexicon
نَيْف
nɛyf
basic morphological information
text examples
a. yeŝóunɛ ˁeʸh men sɛr ʸhom yeṭáreb wa-yenáṣat id-ṭaḥ wa-yekténaḥ id-ḳanšerhɔn di-nεyf di-ˀáḷḷaʰ ‘From time to time, one couldsee him descend, stare at theseashore and come back to the mountain peaks, to the cliffs of God’ (Belozerova et al. 2023:563)
b. wa-ˀaḷ-yezóˁom kaḷ be-ṭíyyoʰ maˁdirέreʰ nɛyf di-ˀáḷḷaʰ bíŝi ṭoḳ di-yóˁod kaḷ enʸhέroʰ wáľľa di-mídi men nhɔfš ‘And it lives only in bottomless gorges, God’s precipice – nobody goes there except birds or one who is tired of his own life’ (CSOL III 21:8)
root
derivates
- nif steep mountain slope
etymology
Borrowed from Arabic, cf. nāyifah ‘lofty mountain’ (Piamenta 501)