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Soqotri Lexicon
أَيْتٞامُو
ɛytémoʰ (pl. ɛytámten or ɛytɔ́mten)
basic morphological information
text examples
a. wa-tezáˁa bíyyoʰ men béytak wa-deš bésen ɛytémoʰ wa-maḥazέḷoʰ ‘Oh my son, take a wife from your house, a poor orphan from among them’ (CSOL I 20:9-10)
b. aḷ-yedóme šḥer dέmi tedómin marhéten wa-ˀaḷ-meniyóte yeróne di-terónin ɛytɔ́mten ‘Men do not sleep such a (deep) sleep as women sleep, nor do they utter the curses that the orphan girls utter’ (Naumkin et al. 2015a 142b)
root
derivates
- έytim orphan boy
etymology
PWS *yatVm- orphan
continental MSA
- Mhr. ḥə-ytīm orphan
- Jib. ótím orphan
- Hrs. ḥe-ytēm/ḥe-ytōm male orphan