حْتٞڸْيهُو
(3 sg. f.) ḥtéḷʸhoʰ (taḥteḷéhen or taḥtéḷoʸh/taḥtéḷeʸh)
basic morphological information

v. (VI/VIII)

to bear a child before due time, to miscarry, abort (about a human being)
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أَجْهَضَ
LS 178; Bulakh et al. 2021:241; Naumkin et al. 2022:276
text examples

a. naˁámer ˁážeʰ keʰ erḳóḥoʰ mébrehe wa-ʸheʰ al-ŝéfaḳ ḥtéľʸhoʰ ‘We say about a woman, if she gave birth to a child, and it is underdeveloped: ḥtéľʸhoʰ’ (Bulakh et al. 2021:241)

b. ṭeʸh ˁážeʰ šin ḷaḷ tegḥíľoḷ aḷ-ˀáraḥ ŝfᵉḳɔn taḥteḷéhen wa-ˀaḷ-ken ses embóryeʰ tö́boš ˁážeʰ wa-temtέḷoḷ tóˀo taḥteḷéhen dέhɛr ‘There is a woman among us — when she gets pregnant, she is unable to complete her gestation: she aborts and has no children. And the woman weeps and worries because she aborts all the time’ (Naumkin et al. 2022:277)

morphological notes

For semantic reasons used in the feminine only.

semantic notes

The verb is in complementary distribution with áˁgeḷ (applied to goats or other small cattle) and ḥáṭif (applied to large cattle).

root
etymology

Proto-MSA *ḫlš ‘to abort’ may go back to PS *ḫlš ‘to tear out’. Contra SED I No. 33v, there is no connection between this root and PS *ḫyl ‘to be in labor’.

continental MSA