كٞرْبٞاڸُو
kerbéḷoʰ
basic morphological information

n. (f.)

lower part of the tail
нижняя часть хвоста
الجزء السفلي من الذيل
CSOL I 581; Naumkin et al. 2016b:76; Naumkin–Kogan 2021 :532
text examples

šin be-saḳɔ́tri ˁag ḷaḷ yóuʸhor díˀʸheʰ bᵉˁer wa-kse déḥeẓ̂ be-ˀórem ľázem yíľoʸh be-kerbéḷoʰ di-dónib kor aḷ-ľidḥáẓ̂ bᵉˁer ‘In our land, in Soqotra, when somebody drives his camel and finds that the road is slippery, he has to hold the camel by the tip of its tail to prevent it from slipping away’ (Naumkin et al. 2016b:76)

root
etymology

No etymology detected (Naumkin et al. 2016b:76). Johnstone compares Mhr. kárbel ‘to crawl on the knees’, Jib. ekɛrbél ‘to become a cripple’, but this is hardly suitable semantically.