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Soqotri Lexicon
شٞڸْحٞى
šéḷḥe (yešḷóḥi/ľišóľiḥ)
basic morphological information
text examples
1. béḷokk nɔ́fin men témreʰ ˁaf ebáraḥ di-ḥóʸhi ˁar régom bɛ šέḷḥɛyk ‘I threw myself down from the palm until I reached the ground - thanks to God, I had not climbed too high!’ (Naumkin et al. 2022:269)
2. wa-ˀéḳdomk ˁes tóˀo tebέsbes be-ḳáneʰ wa-seʰ šéḷḥe ‘I saw it (the watch) glittering on the bottom (of the pool), but it was too deep’ (CSOL II 4:32)
root
derivates
- ḷéḥe to join a kid to a goat other than its mother for suckling
- ľeḥé downwards
- ľáḥi feeding a kid goat
- méľḥe a kid sucking from a goat other than its mother
- méľḥe a male goat accustomed to stay in the living compound
- mέḷḥeʰ a female goat accustomed to stay in the living compound
- éḷḥe to lower, to make deep