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Soqotri Lexicon
حٞايَط
ḥéyaṭ (yáḥyeṭ/ľaḥyáṭ)
text examples
ˁážeʰ ḥeyyáṭoʰ ḳamíṣ di-biẓ̂ároʰ ‘A woman stitched up a shirt which had been torn’ (field notes)
morphological notes
pass. ḥíyaṭ (yeḥóuyaṭ/ľiḥyóṭ):
wa-ŝóuṭar ŝérhi deʰ di-ˀíṭab wa-ḷaṭ yeḥóuyaṭ fírod fáḥre di-ŝérhi be-di-megrέfɛf ‘Then the leather which has been beaten is cut up, and all of its sides are strapped to the hoop’ (CSOL II 9:21)
other notes
Borrowing from Arabic is likely.
root
derivates
- máḥyeṭ needle
etymology
PCS *ḫawṭ-, *ḫayṭ- thread