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Soqotri Lexicon
عٞاتُو
ˁéto
text examples
a. aḷ-ˁak tenfέš ḥe deʰ ˁéto di-sénem ‘Do not breathe at me anymore with this stinking smoke (of your tobacco pipe)’ (field notes)
b. ˁéḳab ˁéto šayṭán ˁéʸhof ‘The devil turned into smoke and disappeared’ (CSOL II 14:8)
semantic notes
According to the informants from the Da’rho tribe ‘smoke’ can be alternatively rendered by ḥíľaḳ, which have been described as full synonyms. (Kogan 2015:521)
other notes
tóˀo ˁéto ‘(as fast) as smoke’:
férod ˁéḳab tóˀo ˁéto ‘He fled and he was (as fast) as smoke’ (CSOL II 8:22)
root
derivates
- ˁóti or ˁέti to emit smoke, to curl like smoke