v. (Ia)

1.

a. ˁemέroʰ heʸh aˀḥ feľán ˁaf ˁéyyek ḷebˁóḷk ‘She said to him: “Oh so-and-so! I would like to marry you’ (CSOL II 1:8)

b. keʰ ˁö́mor hek ľa wa-ˀaḷ-ˁerέbek dakkár toʸh ‘If he says no to you and doesn’t acknowledge you, remind him’ (CSOL II 1:21)

c. ˁö́mor ˁag íľʸheʰ tenótir wa-ʸheʰ yénṭeṭ men fᵉzaˁ ˁan sáṭahan ‘The man read his verses trembling in fear before the sultan’ (CSOL I 27:22)

d. éľľehe šek édhom di-ˁúmor hes di-ˀAbáni ‘You have a cow, a red one called di-Abani’ (CSOL I 8:16)

e. naˁámer be-saḳɔ́ṭri ḥéyhe keʰ éḷḷeḳ ŝiyáṭ ḷe-di-ḳóudor ŝérof ‘On Soqotra we say ŝérof if somebody cooks something on a very hot fire’ (CSOL II 2:32)

f. naˁámer ḥaʰ šin kašḥ bíľeʰ di-ḳeṭíboʰ wa-kíˀi mes faḳḥ ‘Here, in our land, we say kašḥ about anything cut up, of which a part remains’ (CSOL II 9:23)

g. taˁámer eníˀho ḥeḷóti ber ho mesíyoʰ men bέker ‘My step-mother says to me that I show signs of my first pregnancy’ (CSOL II 6:17)

h. taˁámer heʸh yeˁaróbsen mársɛn di-gemɔ́hɔḷ ‘You should tell him to acquaint them with the camel stable’ (CSOL II 1:85)

i. ˁö́mor dṣ̌inḳ ˁéḳab ˁéto ‘ He made a sound dšinḳ and turned into smoke’ (CSOL II 14:49)

2

a. ḳádom mes ḷe-ŝɔb tóˀo ˁemέroʰ ṭaʰ tóˀo mésmar ‘You see that her foot, when she does this, is like a naiľ (CSOL II 18:3)

b. ˁemέroʰ heʸh ˁážeʰ ḳáhwaʰ wa-ˀitḳáhwa ‘The woman made a coffee for him, and he drank it’ (CSOL I 1:8)

c. inέm ˁámoš be-ˀírhɛz ‘What did you do to the rice?’ (CSOL I 17:51)

d. wa-ksö́we érhon tóˀo ˁemέroʰ kedéreʰ ‘The goats were found in a heap (lit. as they made a heap)’ (CSOL II 8:23)

f. bíŝi šeš ˁífef naˁmέr e-ľheʰ ˁeyyúg di-gédeḥ ‘Don’t you not have a lamb we could prepare for these men who have come?”’ (CSOL I 17:39)

g. tóˀo ˁámok tósen ˁö́ḳar ḥe ‘As I put them (the shoes) on, they were too big for me’ (field notes)

h. wa-deʰ di-yetéḳi yóudof ḷe-tembέkoʰ wa-yeḥošíˀin di-ríḥo wa-ḷaṭ yaˁámerš di-ṣ̌áˁarhɛr ‘One who wants to smoke takes a tobacco leaf, crushes it on his palm and puts it in the pipe’ (CSOL I 18:3)

i. wa-tóˀo ˁemédoʰ ˁemέroʰ ˁážeʰ men gerégen di-betróľ di-šemˁíyeʰ ‘In the evening my wife poured some petrol from the tank into an oil lamp’ (CSOL I 18:4)

j. edέfoʰ wa-ˁeḷέboʰ díˀseʰ kérˀḥaḷ wa-seʰ táḳob díˀseʰ kérˀḥaḷ díˀseʰ di-ḳaľás wa-taˁámer ˁésen kefuľ-áḥya ‘Then she cut off the testicles and put them in a can. And she covered them with a preservative’ (CSOL I 1:28)

k. ḥéḷob ʸheʰ ŝḥaf di-ˁímɛr beʸh ḥímaẓ̂ ‘The curds are the milk into which the souring agent was put’ (CSOL II 2:9)

l. géšoḷ ṭad ľoḥ wa-ˁemέreʸh móḳdif ‘He broke one board and made an oar out of it’ (field notes)

pass. ˁímɛr (yeˁúmor/ľiˁmór)

‘To say to somebody (e-)’: (1b).

‘To say, to tell something (direct object)’: (1c). 

‘To name, to call something (e-) with a certain name (direct object)’: (1d).

‘To call something (direct object) with a certain name (direct object)’: (1f).

‘To say that ... (complement clause introduced with ber)’: (1g).

‘To tell somebody (e-) to do something (imperfect)’: (1h).

‘To emit a sound (lit. to say a sound)’: (1i).

‘To do/make something (direct object)’: (2b).

‘To make something (direct object) out of something (pronominal suffix)’: (2l).

‘To do something (direct object) with something (be-)’: (2c).

‘To form something, to become something (direct object)’: (2d).

‘To cook’: (2f).

‘To put on (clothes, shoes)’: (2g).

‘To put or pour into (di-) or upon (ḷe-)’: (2h, i, j).

‘To add to something (be-)’: (2k).

ˁö́mor édbehor ‘to take honey out of a hole in a tree (lit. to do bees)’:

ṭáhɛrk ˁámok édbehor wa-ˁéyyek ḷehέ éˀed di-néḳheľ ‘Once I went to collect wild honey and I wanted to put my hand into the beehive’ (CSOL I 2:51).

ˁö́mor ŝáˀbi ḥóyhe di-gέmeʰ ‘to start walking (lit. to put one’s feet upon the ground downwards)’:

báˁad ḥaʰ ˁámok ŝáˀbi ḥóʸhe di-gέmeʰ wa-kánaḥk ˁógiľ ḥe ˁag wa-ˁážeʰ wa-díˀʸhen ˁougénoʰ ‘Then I put my feet to the ground and began walking down. And there again I met a man, his wife and their daughter’ (CSOL II 12:9).

ˁö́mor šámmaʰ ‘to take snuff (šámmaʰ) (lit. to do šámmaʰ)’:

érbodk díˀʸho ˁouyέghɛn tóˀo yenáḥag wa-yóˁod ke-ˀembóryeʰ iľyáˁ di-yeḫázzanu wáľľa yeˁómer šámmaʰ ‘I chastized my son for running with a bad crowd and horsing around with them, those who chew qat or take snuff’ (CSOL II 6:20).

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