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Soqotri Lexicon
كتُاب
ktob (yekóteb/ľiktέb)
text examples
tóˀo kέrhen sobírin nekóteb be-di-soḳoṭríyyaʰ neẓ̂ḷóḷ díˀḥan be-ketábaʰ wa-náˁaʰ áḥsan ‘When we started to write in Soqotri, we used to make mistakes, but now it has improved’ (Naumkin et al. 2013b:556)
morphological notes
other notes
Likely borrowed from Arabic, cf. ktb 1 for more transparent Arabisms from the same root.
root
derivates
- kítib writing
etymology
PCS *ktb to write