Words

Soqotri
díˀɛt - yours (CSOL II 442; LS 146)

The nuclear element ɛt ‘you’ is alien to the dialect of our informants and makes clear that the poetic segment of CSOL II 8 comes from a tribal area other than Daˁrho.

Soqotri
dóˁof - to give shadow (Naumkin et al. 2014b:49, 65; LS 132)
Soqotri
dáˁan - rock (LS 131)
Soqotri
dóˁor - to spill, to pour (LS 132; CSOL I 524; CSOL II 443)

dóˁor rího ‘to pass water’ (CSOL II 29:12)

Soqotri
dáˁar - to flow (LS 132; CSOL I 524; CSOL II 443)
Soqotri
déboḷ - to collect (LS 121; CSOL II 443)
Soqotri
dábar - pasture (Naumkin et al. 2016b:62; CSOL I 525)
Soqotri
dédoʰ - 1. paternal uncle; 2. father-in-law (Naumkin et al. 2015a:66; CSOL II 443; CSOL I 525; LS 123)

di-dédoʰ ‘nephew’:

wa-yaˁámer heʸh díˀʸheʰ dédoʰ tóˀo ˁö́ḳar ḥóuton ɛʰ di-dédoʰ ‘When he grew up, his uncle said to him: “You should be circumcised, my nephew!”’ (CSOL I 28:8)

Soqotri
défe - to be deaf (CSOL II 444; Naumkin et al. 2016a:51; LS 132)

3 sg. f. difóˀo

Soqotri
dáfaˁ - 1. to push, to thrust with one’s horns; 2. to bribe, to give as a present (LS 132; Naumkin et al. 2014b:41, 61)