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عِيلِي
ˁíľi (yeˁóľi/ľaˁḷέ)
basic morphological information
text examples
has. 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.