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Soqotri Lexicon
إِإِفش
íˀif-/if-
text examples
ˁö́mor ḷέmin fátḥaš ešórš fegrémoʰ di-ˀifš ‘But her husband replied: “If he’d fallen, I would have made you follow the skull of your father”’ (CSOL II 30:23)
morphological notes
Used with pronominal suffixes only.
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Sg. |
Du. |
Pl. |
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1 |
- |
iˀífki |
- |
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2 m. |
íˀifk |
iˀífki |
iˀífken |
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2 f. |
íˀifš/ifš |
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3 m. |
íˀifš |
iˀífʸhi |
iˀífʸhen |
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3 f. |
íˀifs |
iˀífsen |
1 sg. and pl. forms are unknown to the informants and could not be elicited from them.
other notes
In the speech of our language consultants, the form is deeply obsolete and rarely used.
root
etymology
While undoubtedly going back to PS *ˀab-, the i-vocalism of the base and -f instead of *-b remain hard to explain (but cf. Bulakh 2023:205). Note that the former feature clearly goes back to proto-MSA, cf. Mhr. ḥayb (< *ḥa-ˀīb), Jib. ˀiy.