Words

Soqotri
ken - from (CSOL I 578; CSOL II 501; LS 220)

With pronominal suffixes only.

 

Sg.

Du.

Pl.

1

kénhi

kenníˀho

kénki

kenkíˀki

kin (kɛn)

kenníˀḥan

2 m.

kenk

kenkέ

kénki

kenkíˀti

kénken

kenkéˀten

2 f.

kenš

kenší

3 m.

kãʸh (kãyš)

kenšέ

kénʸhi

kenšíˀʸhi

kénʸhen

kenšéˀʸhen

3 f.

kens

kensέ

kénsen

kenséˀsen

Soqotri
ken - certainly, indeed, yes (CSOL I 579; CSOL II 501)
Soqotri
kánaḥ - to repeat, to do again (LS 221; CSOL I 579; CSOL II 502)

The verb appears mostly in preposition to the main verb, but the reverse word order is also possible:

wa-ḳaˁ kánaḥ díˀʸheʰ šégreʰ ‘And he started again to ask the riddle of his tree’ (CSOL II 4:15)

 

Soqotri
kᵉnen - to protect from rain (CSOL I 580)
Soqotri
ker - on, over, through, along (CSOL II 503; CSOL I 580; LS 114)

With verbs of motion: 1:30, 17:16, 25:8; otherwise: 12:11

ḷe-ker ‘on, over, through, along’

Soqotri
kíri - to be short (LS 224; CSOL II 504; Naumkin et al. 2015a:74)
Soqotri
kére - to come to an end (LS 224; CSOL II 504)
Soqotri
kér - kind of shark (Naumkin–Porhomovskiy 1981: 52)
Soqotri
kor, kéyhor - in order that (LS 370; CSOL I 580; CSOL II 503; Naumkin et al. 2015a:74)

With the imperfect (‘in order that’); with the negative jussive (‘lest’)

Soqotri
kéreb - wooden mouthpiece of the composite smoking pipe (CSOL I 580)