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Soqotri Lexicon
ڛُاؤُم
ŝóˀom (yeŝóˀom/ľiŝˀέm)
basic morphological information
text examples
a. énḳef mes di-šéẓ̂re wa-zéˁe kor yeŝóˀom ‘He took everything that he liked out of it (the car) in order to sell (it)’ (CSOL I 15:9)
b. yeŝóˀomš be-ḳaḥf di-ˀírhɛz ‘He would sell it (the trunk of a tree) for a measure of rice’ (CSOL II 15:7)
c. ŝóˀomk éľľehe díˀʸho ḷe-ṣáḥeb be-ḫamsín eľf ‘I sold a cow to a friend of mine for fifty thousand’ (Naumkin et al. 2013b:544)
d. ˁag di-ŝóˀom témre be-ˀéľľehe di-ḥizízoʰ ‘A man sold his date-palm for a slaughtered cow’ (field notes)
morphological notes
pass. ŝíˀɛm (yeŝóuˀom/ľiŝˀóm)
semantic notes
‘To sell something (direct object) to somebody (ḷe-) at a certain price (be-)’ (b, c, d)
root
etymology
From PS *ŝˀm, presumably ‘to trade’ (see Bulakh 2023:243–244 for a detailed analysis of the data and possible semantic shifts).