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Soqotri Lexicon
بَاكٞر
bέker (du. bέkri, pl. ébkɛr)
basic morphological information
text examples
óˀoz di-kɔn ses men ẓ̂áˀteʰ wa-di-ˁaľέ naˁámer hes bέker ‘A goat from three years on is called bέker’ (CSOL I 24:22)
morphological notes
The dim. form bóukɛr is used as an independent noun with different semantics.
other notes
gézhɛr di-bέker ‘skin vessel made of a skin of a grown-up goat’:
naˁámer ḥéyhe káľľama ḥéḷob ŝḥaf di-déḷaḳ wa-ʸhömaẓ̂ be-gézhɛr di-bέker naˁámer fuľán ébker ‘If a person milked a lot of milk and shook it in a skin vessel made of a skin of a grown-up goat, we say: ébker’ (Bulakh et al. 2021:245)
root
derivates
- (3 sg. f.) bekέroʰ to give birth for the first time (a goat)
- men bέker for the first time
- ébker to shake butter in a leather vessel made of the skin of a grown-up female goat
- di-bέker first-born child
- bóukɛr a goat who gave birth only once
etymology
PS *bVkVr- firstborn
continental MSA
- Mhr. bēkər firstborn