مآن
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Soqotri[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- مهن (mhɔn) (after prepositions)
Etymology[edit]
Akin to Mehri [script needed] (môn), Shehri [script needed] (mun), Arabic مَن (man, “who”).
Pronoun[edit]
مآن (mɔn)
- who (interrogative or relative)
- 2018, “Oh Generation...”, in Vitaly Naumkin, compiler, Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 2, page 90, lines 1–2:
- ومآن شيهو ڸعبارو ولنقُاد ڸمنقينيعو؟
- wa-mɔn šíʔho ḷə-ʕəbéro wa-ľinḳód ḷə-mənḳiníʕo
- Who is with me against this generation so that the crazy ones will be reprimanded?
References[edit]
- Naumkin, Vitaly, et al. (2014) “Glossary”, in Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 1, Leiden: Brill, , →ISBN, page 612
- Naumkin, Vitaly, et al. (2018) “Glossary”, in Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 2, Leiden: Brill, , →ISBN, page 538
- Leslau, Wolf (1938) “mon”, in Lexique Soqotri (sudarabique moderne) avec comparaisons et explications étymologiques (in French), Wiesbaden: Libraire C. Klincksieck, page 245