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By Rudolf E. de Jong

ISBN-10: 9004201017

ISBN-13: 9789004201019

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E ] and [o ]. Examples of /ē/ for *ay are: i nēn “two”, bēn “between”, lēlih “evening”, sēl “flood”, ǧwēl (dim. of ǧāl) “little side” and examples for ō for *aw are mōt “death”, yōm “day”, fōg “above”, sōdíy “black (sg. )”, gōṃah “(manner of) standing up”. A. [e ] and [o ], just above [ɛ ] and [ ]. A. ), as in Aḅuw Hēb “name of a snake charmer (of the Awlād Sa īd)” and hōdaǧ “camel litter (formerly used for the bride in a wedding procession)”. ) and also mēṛakah (root w-r-k) “leather riding cushion supporting the lower leg”.

And budṛah “seeds (like powder) from a palm tree” (the latter in HnA) and kaza “such and so”. A. g. (as the reflex of *ḍ in) Rama ̣ ān “Ramadan”, itna ̣ ̣ ifhiʾ # “you clean it (sg. )”, ̣ ǟf “guest” and úri ̣ ha “its (sg. ), xu ̣ riy “type of green tobacco”, ʿawa ̣ “compensation”. Like in group VI, ẓ is the current reflex in lexemes like mwaẓẓaf “civil servant”, ẓābiṭ “offfijicer”, b-iẓẓabṭ “precisely”, binẓabbiṭ “we do a proper job”, niẓām “system”. Some other examples are: btiẓhar “she becomes lucky”, naẓaṛīytuḳ “your (critical) vision”, biybawwiẓha “he ruins it (sg.

60) (from Wādiy Ṣlāf). The abbreviation used here to refer to their dialect is ASA. 50 Ḥiswah is in Wādiy Fēṛān, coordinates are appr. 33 East, see Google Earth. 51 The mouth of Wādiy Ba ba is just to the northeast of Aḅuw Rdēs and just to the northwest of Wādiy Maġāṛah. Coordinates are appr. 15 East on Google Earth. The area of Uṃṃ Buǧmah is well known among geologists for its manganese deposits. Already in pharaonic times, in the general area around Sarābīṭ alXādim and in Wādiy Maġāṛah turquoise was mined.

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