أأد

Soqotri

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *yad-. Akin to Mehri [script needed] (ḥayd), Shehri [script needed] (ed).

Noun

أأد (ə́ʔəd) f (dual إيدي (ídi), plural أدهاتن (ədhétən))

  1. hand, arm
    • 2014, “A Crazy Tourists”, in Vitaly Naumkin, compiler, Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 1, page 220, line 15:
      ڸٞى طاد بإيدي وطاد دكامش دِعارب عاف نافك ميه من قار.
      ḷə ṭad bə-ʔídi wa-ṭad dəkɛ́məš di-ʕárəb ʕaf nɛ́fok məy mən ḳar
      One held his hands while the other hit him on the back of his neck so that the lime shot out of his throat.

References
  • Naumkin, Vitaly, et al. (2014) “Glossary”, in Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 1, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 465
  • Naumkin, Vitaly, et al. (2018) “Glossary”, in Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 2, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 378
  • Leslau, Wolf (1938) “ʾed”, in Lexique Soqotri (sudarabique moderne) avec comparaisons et explications étymologiques (in French), Wiesbaden: Libraire C. Klincksieck, page 52
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