v. (Ia)

a. gédaḥ maˁáľľam wa-béne énhi ḳáˁar tóˀo éraḥ mes faḳḥ ṭáhɛr wa-ˀaḷ-ˁad tómiˁ ľibnɛ́ ‘A builder came and started to build a house for me. When he was halfway through, he left and and refused to continue to build’ (CSOL I 6:45)

b. entáḥki ḷe-bestán wa-bónik toʸh ‘I was in a dispute over a palm-grove with another person and I built a fence around it’ (CSOL I 16:12)

pass. benö́we (yebóunɛ/ľibnó)

‘To build a fence around something (direct object)’ (b)

• bénho construction
• ébne to let somebody build, to hire somebody to build
• šébne 1. to be suitable for building; 2. to be well built