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Soqotri Lexicon
بٞانٞى
béne (yíbon/ľibnέ)
text examples
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)
morphological notes
pass. benö́we (yebóunɛ/ľibnó)
semantic notes
‘To build a fence around something (direct object)’ (b)
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derivates
etymology
From PS *bny ‘to build’.