Words

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ḳáˁar - house, living compound (CSOL I 584; CSOL II 507; Naumkin et al. 2015a:74; LS 380)

In CSOL II 30:35 be-ḳáˁar is used with the meaning be-ḳáneʰ ‘inside’ (a dialectal feature alien to the speech of our informants): wa-ˀédher be-ḳáˁar wa-yóˁod díˀʸheʰ ḷe-ˀeḳníyoʰ wa-yeḳáṭab wa-yekós ‘And he stayed inside. He would go out for food, then hide again in his burrow.’

ḳáˁri di-náḥrer ‘nostrils’: díˀʸho ḳáˁri mešteḳaḷíti ḳáˁri di-náḥrer ‘Two houses of mine, the leaning ones. The nostrils’ (CSOL II 12:1)

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eḳˁírir - to feel sad, depressed, uncomfortable (CSOL II 507)
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ḳóˁoŝ - to escape (an enclosed animal) (CSOL II 508; Naumkin et al. 2022:260–261)
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ḳáˁshɛr - curly (hair) (CSOL II 507)
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ḳeb - to roast (LS 365; CSOL I 584)
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ḳö́boḷ - to be glad, to relax (LS 366; CSOL II 508)
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ḳö́bor - to bury (LS 366; CSOL II 508; CSOL I 584)
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ḳábrehɛr - tall, high (CSOL I 585)
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ḳábit - to teach (LS 366; CSOL I 585; CSOL II 509)
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ḳö́baẓ̂ - to be tucked up (a garment)

The verb is not used by most of our informants, and the same meaning is usually expressed by stem VIII: ḳaṭébaẑ.