n. (m.)

a. wa-múgšem deʰ di-ḥóuton yaˁámer díˀʸheʰ tamótiľ wa-yešḥárob be-ˁamḳ ‘As for the boy who was about to be circumcised, he continued reciting his poem while jumping in the middle (of the crowd)’ (CSOL II 8:30)

b. ṭáhɛr múgšem ˁaf yefoḳíḥin ˁamḳ di-ḥádeb ‘So the boy walked until he reached the middle of the way’ (CSOL I 2:40)

c. zenέgoʰ tóˀo eróḥoʰ ˁamḳ di-ḥádeb aḷ-ˁad ṭímaˁ ˁouyέghɛn ľiznέg ‘They (du.) carried the load. When they reached the middle of the way (midway along), the boy could not carry it any further’ (CSOL II 29:5)

d. saḳt be-siyáraʰ béne ˁaf tóˀo éraḥk ˁamḳ di-ˀórem ṭáhɛr ḥe berík ‘I was driving fast in my car. When I reached the middle of the way (midway along) the brakes gave out’ (CSOL II 15:34)

ˁamḳ di- ‘in the middle of (spatial)’:

éʸhork mésen ouzhéten ˁaf ˁamḳ di-ḥaḷf ˁógiľ ḥe ˁag di-yetɛbíľin ʸhéˀerho érhon ‘I was going after some of my goats. Midway along, I met a man who was also gathering up his goats’ (CSOL II 12:16).

ˁamḳ di- ‘in the middle of (temporal)’:

kɔn šin níbit di-tímhɛr wa-nebóten ˁaf ˁamḳ di-šɔm ľísoʰ mέsɛ ‘It was the season of palm pollination in our land. We were pollinating (our trees), but in the middle of the day it rained’ (CSOL II 30:38)

wa-déroʰ ˁággi ˁaf ˁamḳ di-waḳt ṣáme ŝíbɛb ‘The father and the son lived together, and after a while the old man died’ (CSOL II 4:4).

be-ˁamḳ di- ‘in the middle of (spatial)’:

ˁamérho ḳarére tebánšar ˁin siyáraʰ be-ˁamḳ di-ˀórem wa-ˀal-ˀáraḥ tan maṭár ‘Our car may get a puncture tomorrow in the middle of the way and will not bring us to the airport’ (Naumkin et al. 2013b:545).

be-ˁamḳ di- ‘in the middle of (temporal)’:

tɛbíľoʰ ˁážeʰ díˀseʰ bíššoḷ be-ˁamḳ di-ḥteʰ be-téked ‘The woman gathered her things in the middle of the night, in a hurry’ (CSOL II 25:3).

• ˁómiḳ to reach the middle
• aˁmέḳe ḥáḷfe to a remote place