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Soqotri Lexicon
ڛٞجْرٞه
ŝégreʰ (du. ŝigríti, pl. ŝíghɛr)
basic morphological information
text examples
ˁámok e-díˀʸho sáyeḳ tenέdor be-ŝíghɛr ‘I said to my driver: “Be careful on the mountain passes!”’ (CSOL I 11:2)
root
etymology
From proto-MSA *ŝVgVr-at- ‘ravine’. Cf. perhaps Gez. ŝagara ‘to take a step, to amble, to go across’ and its EthS cognates (CDG 526), especially Amh. täšaggärä ‘to cross a river, to cross over’.