ريهو

Soqotri

Etymology

From the root of ري (ri, “to drink”).

Noun

ريهو (rího) m

1. water
   • 2014, “A Merciful Woman and Diheko”, in Vitaly Naumkin, compiler, Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 1, page 144, line 8:

     عمارو: أَأْح أڸ عاك هو آڸُيْ بريهو من بعد داش شآم دحار.

     ʕəmɛ́ro aʔḥ aḷ-ʕak ho éḷoy bə-rího mən báʕad dəš šɔm di-ḥer

     She said: "Oh, I'll have no more water after today."

References

• Naumkin, Vitaly, et al. (2014) “Glossary”, in Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 1, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 638
• Naumkin, Vitaly, et al. (2018) “Glossary”, in Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 2, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 569
• Leslau, Wolf (1938) “rwy”, in Lexique Soqotri (sudarabique moderne) avec comparaisons et explications étymologiques (in French), Wiesbaden: Libraire C. Klincksieck, page 395f.