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Soqotri Lexicon
كآڸ
kɔḷ (yíkaḷ/ľikáḷ or ľákaḷ)
basic morphological information
text examples
a. áḷaḥk men iˀḥíti kor tekóber énhi ber ho aḷ-kɔḷk ḷekbέr di-méľkok ‘I called my sister to wrap thread around the bobbin, as I didn’t know how to thread the bobbin which is in the machine’ (CSOL II 28:28)
b. aˀḥ dédo aḷ-kɔḷk ḷáṣbaḥ ‘Oh my uncle! I cannot look for the goats!’ (CSOL I 28:16)
c. tóˀo gédaḥk men aľ-yáman aḷ-kɔḷk be-ˀinternét wa-náˁaʰ kέrhe šeḳábitk énṭen ‘When I came from Yemen I did not know how to use the Internet, but only just now I’ve gotten the hang of it’ (CSOL I 7:1)
morphological notes
perfect 3 sg. f. kέḷoʰ
ľikáḷ and ľákaḷ coexist as jussive forms, the latter being borrowed from the paradigm of the causative stem (Naumkin et al. 2016a:53 with fn. 54)
semantic notes
‘To know how to do something (jussive)’ (a, b)
‘To know how to do something (be-)’ (c)
root
etymology
PWS *khl to be able