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                  عِيلِي
                
              
                  ˁíľi (yeˁóľi/ľaˁḷέ)
                
                
                    basic morphological information
                  
                  
                
                    text examples
                  
                  
                a. éṭḳaˁk bes wa-ˀaḷ-ˁíľoʰ ‘I looked at her from below, and found she was not very talľ (CSOL I 18:17)
b. tóˀo ekóben ḳáryaʰ eḳdómen iľ-baḥmírhɛr di-ṣéṭar be-témreʰ di-ˁíľoʰ ‘When we entered a palm-grove we saw some iľ-baḥmírhɛr-birds sitting on a tall palm-tree’ (Naumkin et al. 2013b:555)
                    root
                  
                  
                
                    etymology
                  
                  
                From PS *ˁly/*ˁlw with the same meaning.