دَمْدٞم
dέmdem (yedέmdem/ľidέmdɛm)
basic morphological information

v. (QR)

to rock gently
покачивать
هزَّ
CSOL I 529; CSOL II 447
text examples

a. tέndonk ḷe-ˁouyέghɛn wa-dέmdomk ˁeʸh be-zɛng kor yédom ‘I sang a lullaby to my baby and rocked him to sleep in a bundle (used as a cradle)’ (field notes)

morphological notes

v. n. demdέmeʰ.

semantic notes

‘To rock a baby (ḷe-)’ (a).

root
dmdm
derivates
etymology

Formally similar verbs in continental MSA are semantically rather remote: Mhr. adámdem ‘to grope’, Jib. edemdím ‘to put one’s hand here and there in the dark’ (Naumkin et al 2016b:66).

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