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Soqotri Lexicon
رِي
ri (du. ríˀi, pl. érˀeš)
basic morphological information
n. (m.)
1. head; 2. top, upper part
голова; вершина, верхняя часть
رأس
LS 390; CSOL I 631; CSOL II 559; Naumkin et al. 2015a:81
голова; вершина, верхняя часть
رأس
text examples
1. ḳáḷaˁ tho ˁag be-ˀóben wa-hέmen toˀóte tho di-ri ‘A man hurled a stone at me, and it nearly hit my head’ (CSOL II 30:18)
2.
a. tóˀo éraḥk ri di-ŝégreʰ éḳdomk gáḥi di-ˀö́fog ‘When I reached the top of the mountain pass I saw a wadi full of water’ (CSOL I 26:80)
b. ḳóuṣaf men ri wa-men ľéḥe ‘And it is cut from above and from below’ (CSOL I 18:4)
c. rékotk tɔ́mer ˁaf yešráḳaḥ ḷe-ri di-mórket ‘I trampled the dates until the pulp flowed over the brim of the trampling mat’ (CSOL I 21:5)
d. ḳeṣóˁoʰ šɔm ḷe-ri ‘The sun was high’ (CSOL I 18:2)
other notes
men ri ‘from above’ (2b)
ḷe-ri di- ‘above, over (something)’ (2c)
ḷe-ri ‘above at the utmost point, at the zenith’ (2d)
root
etymology
From PS *raˀš- ‘head’.
continental MSA
- Mhr. ḥə-rōh head
- Jib. rέš head
- Hrs. ḥé-rih, ḥe-rīh head