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عٞاطَم
ˁéṭam (yaˁáṭom/ľaˁṭóm)
basic morphological information
text examples
a. wa-gédaḥ ṭad wa-ḳóľib ṭad méʸhen ˁö́mor έhɛ deʰ ˁéṭam wa-zéˁiš ‘A man came and started inspecting one (male goat). He said: “This one is fat.” And he took him’ (CSOL I 27:14)
b. έˀɛfo ḷe-ḥaʰ be-di-šérḥeḳ ˁéṭem béne wa-yaˁágeb ḷέbin déḥem wa-šin faḳḥ di-ˀέˀɛfo yaˁágeb ľaˁṭém ‘There, in far-off lands, people are very fat and want to become thin. And in our land there are some people who want to become fat’ (CSOL II 8:4)
morphological notes
perfect 3 sg. f. ˁiṭámoʰ
root
etymology
As argued in Kogan 2015:537, from PS *ˁaṯ̣m- ‘bone’ with a non-trivial, but typologically feasible semantic shift (“bone” > “to be massive” > “to be thick, fat” or similar).