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a. ľigáḥ témre tóˀo ˁeḷhéyoʰ ... di-baḷ sófeʰ wa-di-baḷ kémbeb ‘May he climb a palm which is oh so tall, ... with not a ridge on its trunk’ (CSOL I 9:3)

b. náˁaʰ díˀɛʰ eṣbóḥoʰ ɛʰ eṣbóḥoʰ di-baḷ kᵉre ‘Your searching is a searching without end’ (CSOL II 17:8)

di-baḷ ḥey ‘nobody’: metóuṭaha wa-metouṭáyoʰ meséremhem di-baḷ ḥey ‘A lad and a lass, there is nobody else’ (CSOL I 8:24)