ڛٞرْهَن
ŝérhon
basic morphological information

n. (pl. t.)

feet, legs
ноги
أَرْجُل
LS 434; CSOL I 669; CSOL II 602
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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