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Soqotri Lexicon
ڛٞرْهَن
ŝérhon
text examples
egášaḷ meš ŝérhon ‘I’ll break your legs’ (CSOL II 20:14)
morphological notes
This word is used as the suppletive plural of ŝɔb.
semantic notes
Also used with the meaning ‘chassis (of a plane)’:
wa-tóˀo waṣáľna boḳ menáḷ tebáraḥ aḷ-ˀerḳóḥoʰ ŝérhon ‘When it (the plane) arrived to the place of destination, it could not put out the chassis’ (Bulakh 2024:218)
other notes
Some informants insist on the pronunciation ŝérˁḥon (cf. CSOL II 18:3), also attested in the Vienna corpus.
ˁod be-ŝérhon ‘to go by foot’:
ḥayr hin fɔ́ne ľaw ˁóden be-ŝérhon ‘It would have been better for us if we went by foot’ (Bulakh 2024:184)
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