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Soqotri Lexicon
حِيهٞى، هٞي
ḥéyhe or hey
basic morphological information
text examples
ḥéyhe ḷaḷ yaˁágob ľaˁmέr nhɔfš tímhɛr di-ke-bóde yeḥóre men ḥaḷf di-šker wa-di-yešráḳaḥ beʸh rího ‘When somebody wants to plant for himself palm trees, first he looks for an appropriate plot where water is available’ (CSOL II 9:1)
other notes
di-baḷ ḥey ‘nobody’: o o maˁtóuẓ̂af wa-maˁtouẓ̂áfoʰ meséremhem di-baḷ ḥey ‘Oh! A grown man and woman, there is nobody else’ (CSOL I 8:28)
root
etymology
PWS *ḥyy (*ḥwy, *ḥyw) to live, to be alive