a. ḷaḷ nóuḥog yeḷóhom ˁag ḥóʸhi díˀʸheʰ be-ˀeṣábiˁ di-ˀéˀed wa-ḷaṭ yóuṭab ˁag di-kózi yaˁámer heʸh bar wa-ˀébˁad ḳáḷaḥam díre ‘When one plays this game, one player touches the soil with the fingers of his hand and then tags another on his shoulder and says to him bar wa-ˀébˁad ḳáḷaḥam díre’ (CSOL II 14:40)
b. báˁad-ˀaḷ míľaṭ yeḥóurɛ men ḳáľyof di-ḷéḳhɛm wáľľa ḳáľyof di-ˀéˀteb wa-ḷaṭ ougέˀɛn wa-bouḷógen di-ŝérhi wa-ˀouṭáben beʸh ‘After the hair is plucked (from the hide), the bark of the ḷ.-tree or the bark of e.-tree is sought out, which must be pounded and put into the hide and beaten into it’ (CSOL II 9:17)
pass. íṭab (yóuṭab/ľiṭób)
- méṭeb tanned
Directly comparable, with a transparent semantic shift, to Mhr. weṭáwb ‘to tan leather’, Jib. eṭɔ́b ‘to tan leather’. In all probability, Arb. waṭb- ‘leather vesseľ is related as such vessels represent a prototypical object made of tanned skin in the traditional household of the region. Leslau (LS 57) may be right to further connect Arb. nṭb ‘to box someone’s ears’ as a variant root.