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Soqotri Lexicon
مٞن بَاكٞر
men bέker
basic morphological information
other notes
Only in the phrase men bέker ‘for the first time’ (in the speech of the informants, normally used about marriage or birth): baˁáḷoʰ men bɛ́ker ‘She married for the first time’ or bíroʰ men bɛ́ker ‘She gave birth for the first time’ (CSOL II 6:17)
root
derivates
- (3 sg. f.) bekέroʰ to give birth for the first time (a goat)
- bέker a grown up female goat (three years or more)
- 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