بٞكٞالٞه
bekéľeʰ (du. bekeľíti, pl. bέkɛḷ)
basic morphological information

n. (f.)

snake
змея
ثعبان
LS 86; CSOL I 512; CSOL II 430; Naumkin et al. 2015a:64
text examples

tóˀo eḳdémoʰ ˁeʸh dšénˁaʰ bekéľeʰ ˁaḳídoʰ dénob ferέdoʰ ker ḥfor di-ḳáneʰ ‘When the snake saw him, it coiled its tail and then fled deeper through the lair’ (CSOL I 25:27)

semantic notes

Also used as an intensifier (‘tremendously, terribly’): éʸhork míˀšer ... záḥi bekéľeʰ ‘I was following a tremendously huge one billy goat’ (Bulakh 2024:170)

root
bkl