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إِجْلِيسُو

igľísoʰ (du. igľisóti, pl. égľes or egɛ́ḷes)

basic morphological information

n. (f.)

plateau
плато
السهل الواسع المرتفع

LS 109; CSOL I 544

text examples

ḥérek men tɛ́ten be-ˀigľísoʰ wa-tóˀo éraḥk ṭey men ḳíŝɛr néṣatk ľeḥé wa-ˀéḳdomk be-ˁamḳ di-degdɛ́geʰ tɛ́ten di-kédon wa-ˁodk ˁaf tósen ‘I was looking for my sheep on a plateau and when I reached a bluff, I looked down and noticed the sheep had appeared in the middle of the plain.Then I went down to them.’ (CSOL I 24:13)

root

gls 1

etymology

With Leslau (LS 109), to be compared to Arb. ǯals- ‘rugged ground; elevated area’. A further interesting parallel is found in Tgr. gəlsa ‘abyss, ravine’. Johnstone (ML 119) unconvincingly compares Mhr. gəlōs ‘to quarrel’, Jib. gɔ́lɔ́s ‘to quarrel’.