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Soqotri Lexicon
دٞاه
deʰ (f. deš, du. díki, pl. ľhe, ľhénˁa)
basic morphological information
pron.
this
этот
هذا
LS 62, 120, 127, 131, 229; CSOL I 522-523; CSOL II 439-440; Naumkin et al. 2015a:66
этот
هذا
text examples
a. wa-yezóˁom díˀyhe ke-ˀeˀḷhíten wa- ˀenbö́we di-ˀegέḷed tóˀo aḷ-yetebében kaḷ be-gad di-ˀéľľehe tóˀo ľiṭhóm de yebáddeľ gad nhɔfš ‘He stayed with his cows and was called Cowhide because he wore only cow-hides: whenever one hide wore out, he replaced it for himself.’ (CSOL 2 1:5)
other notes
De is used in the phrase deʰ di-ḥaʰ ‘this (near deixis)’ and deʰ di-boḳ ‘that (far deixis)’.
root
etymology
PS *ḏV this, that; the one who/which/that