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Soqotri
ḷe- - on, over, against
(LS 227, CSOL I 598, CSOL II 522 – 523)
Reconstruction
Proto-MSA
*lV-
- against, on
(Kogan 2015:562)
As duly recognized by both Leslau and Johnstone, the MSA prepositions are semantically equivalent to PS *ˁalay rather than to PWS *li. The etymological *ˁ persists in the Soqotri forms with pronominal suffixes such as ˁəy ‘on him.’ (Kogan 2015:562)