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Soqotri Lexicon
نِيف
nif (pl. níyɛf)
basic morphological information
n.
steep mountain slope
крутой горный склон
منحدر جبلي شديد الانحدار
CSOL III
крутой горный склон
منحدر جبلي شديد الانحدار
text examples
ezˁómki ho wa-ˁag be-ŝέbŝeb di-ṭíyyoʰ tóˀo tóˀo ḷegnέnoʰ di-gέmeʰ aḷ-tŝóni kaḷ níyɛf di-ˀáḷḷaʰ wa-raḥ di-yekteḷéˀen be-ṭíyyoʰ ‘A friend of mine and I were sitting on the edge of a canyon. Whenever we leaned over to look down, we saw only the steep cliff faces of God and the wind whipping here and there in the canyon’ (CSOL III 14:15)
root
derivates
- nɛyf cliff
etymology
Borrowed from Arabic, cf. nāyifah ‘lofty mountain’ (Piamenta 501)