Words

ˁamḳ di- ‘in the middle of (spatial)’:

éʸhork mésen ouzhéten ˁaf ˁamḳ di-ḥaḷf ˁógiľ ḥe ˁag di-yetɛbíľin ʸhéˀerho érhon ‘I was going after some of my goats. Midway along, I met a man who was also gathering up his goats’ (CSOL II 12:16).

ˁamḳ di- ‘in the middle of (temporal)’:

kɔn šin níbit di-tímhɛr wa-nebóten ˁaf ˁamḳ di-šɔm ľísoʰ mέsɛ ‘It was the season of palm pollination in our land. We were pollinating (our trees), but in the middle of the day it rained’ (CSOL II 30:38)

wa-déroʰ ˁággi ˁaf ˁamḳ di-waḳt ṣáme ŝíbɛb ‘The father and the son lived together, and after a while the old man died’ (CSOL II 4:4).

be-ˁamḳ di- ‘in the middle of (spatial)’:

ˁamérho ḳarére tebánšar ˁin siyáraʰ be-ˁamḳ di-ˀórem wa-ˀal-ˀáraḥ tan maṭár ‘Our car may get a puncture tomorrow in the middle of the way and will not bring us to the airport’ (Naumkin et al. 2013b:545).

be-ˁamḳ di- ‘in the middle of (temporal)’:

tɛbíľoʰ ˁážeʰ díˀseʰ bíššoḷ be-ˁamḳ di-ḥteʰ be-téked ‘The woman gathered her things in the middle of the night, in a hurry’ (CSOL II 25:3).

ˁö́mor édbehor ‘to take honey out of a hole in a tree (lit. to do bees)’:

ṭáhɛrk ˁámok édbehor wa-ˁéyyek ḷehέ éˀed di-néḳheľ ‘Once I went to collect wild honey and I wanted to put my hand into the beehive’ (CSOL I 2:51).

ˁö́mor ŝáˀbi ḥóyhe di-gέmeʰ ‘to start walking (lit. to put one’s feet upon the ground downwards)’:

báˁad ḥaʰ ˁámok ŝáˀbi ḥóyhe di-gέmeʰ wa-kánaḥk ˁógiľ ḥe ˁag wa-ˁážeʰ wa-díˀʸhen ˁougénoʰ ‘Then I put my feet to the ground and began walking down. And there again I met a man, his wife and their daughter’ (CSOL II 12:9).

ˁö́mor šámmaʰ ‘to take snuff (šámmaʰ) (lit. to do šámmaʰ)’:

érbodk díˀʸho ˁouyέghɛn tóˀo yenáḥag wa-yóˁod ke-ˀembóryeʰ iľyáˁ di-yeḫázzanu wáľľa yeˁómer šámmaʰ ‘I chastized my son for running with a bad crowd and horsing around with them, those who chew qat or take snuff’ (CSOL II 6:20).

ya ˁan ‘what a …!’: 

tóˀo ḳeˁö́we ḷe-ṣandúḳ íḳdɛm ṭad men ˁeyyúg be-ḳáneʰ ˁímɛr ya ˁan ḳáṣṣaʰ ‘And when the chest was opened, the people saw one of the men inside. Everybody said: “What a trick!”’ (CSOL I 26:91).

ˁan tóˀo ‘when, after, later’: 

ˁö́mor ˁan tóˀo gédaḥk di-maˁábaẓ̂ ˁö́mor tóˀo gédaḥk di-maˁábaẓ̂ wagáb ḥe ṣaľát aľ-ˁásar ‘He said: “When I came to Maʿabaz, it was time for the afternoon prayer”’ (CSOL II 23:28).

ˁan náˁaʰ ‘from now on’: 

ya aḷḷáʰ ya aḷḷáʰ ľázem ṭaʰ ˁan náˁaʰ ho ekténaḥ fóḳri dέhɛr bíŝi še mɛľ éken fóḳri ‘Oh my God! Oh my God! Must it be like this? Shall I become a poor man again, with no money at all?’ (CSOL I 25:47).

ho aḷ-ˁan ḥaʰ ‘I am not on that leveľ:

ho ˁímɛr énhi zóˁom be-ˁamḳ di-ˁeyyúg mesˀuľín wa-ho aḷ-mesˀúľ wa-ˀaḷ-ˁan-ḥaʰ wa-ˀézˁomk méʸhen be-ˁamḳ wa-ˀeḳˁírork ‘I was told: “Sit with the officials,” but I’m no official, not part of that. I sat with them, all the same, but I felt very uncomfortable’ (CSOL II 5:6).