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Soqotri Lexicon
حٞاجُڸ
ḥégoḷ (yeḥágaḷ/ľaḥgέḷ)
basic morphological information
v. (Ia)
to enclose with stones, to support with stones
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سدّ
LS 162; Naumkin et al. 2014b:37, 57
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سدّ
text examples
a. ḥégoḷk mésen ḷe-díˀʸho meŝóriḥ di-ˀenḳánzeḷ ‘I put stones around my young plams which were slanted.’ (field notes)
b. ḥégoḷk ḥegíyeʰ di-ḳatéḷboʰ wa-ḷaṭ kébosk kor téken ˁáŝeʰ ‘I built a stone barrier for the sloping courtyard, and then I threw earth and stones into the gap to fill it in so that it would become a terrace.’ (field notes)
c. ḷaḷ yaˀáẓ̂aˁ ḥéyhe díˀʸheʰ έˀɛfo waḷ-ˀenˀέytim yekóse díˀʸheʰ έˀɛfo ḥégeḷ heʸh maḥgéḷoʰ ‘If a person has his parents still living and if he is not an orphan, he finds that his parents have collected property for him (lit. have enclosed houses and cattle for him).’ (field notes)
semantic notes
‘To provide support’: c.
root
derivates
- ḥíghɛḷ stones put at the bottom of a palm-tree to support it
etymology
PWS *ḥgl to bind; to encircle