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