A Grammar of the Somali Language: With Examples in Prose and Verse and an Account of the Yibir and Midgan DialectsUniversity Press, 1905 - 216 pàgines |
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adjectival adjective Adverbs áfar Aorist Arabic arkei article suffix askari badan biyo Burao Butiya camels Conjugation da'ei dambe definite article dòna dòneya English Examples expressed Farah father Feminine gender GERAR girl gùrsan guttural Habiyo Habr Hamar hhun horse ínan ínanki inflexions Interrogative Ishhak iyannu iyei jirei kăleh Kolkas Kolkasei Kolkasu Kolkasu yidi kolki Kulhídas lába laghei lagu laha language lehh libahh linking consonant maan mahhad mare marry masc masculine mayo mianan Midgan milk Mullah nàg nàgti Negative nin ba ninka ninki noun Nouns ending numeral Personal Pronouns plur plural Possessive Possessive adjective Preterite qualified răg raghahh samèin sentence shan sheg shègi sing sirkálka siyei Somali Somali language speech Subjunctive substantives suffix Suldanki Sultan tegei tell tenses thou tidi tribes verb vowel wahh wahhai wein woman words wuhhu yidi Yibir yidi yimi دو دو دو وو
Passatges populars
Pàgina 147 - ... Sultan will know me." Then he said, " He will not know you, I will say you are my wife." And she said, " If he does not know me, I will go with you and be your wife." At night the Sultan came home and dressed himself, and came to the young man's house. And his wife passed through the hole in the house, and came to the young man's house. Then she served the food to the Sultan and the young man. The Sultan recognised his wife, and got off his chair, and went to his house. Before he reached his...
Pàgina 147 - ... legs had grown out, and that she made the pilgrimage. In the morning at break of day she saw the two birds sitting upon her two legs, and the legs had grown out. After daylight she took her two children and the ram and the two birds and went on the pilgrimage. She came to a building at the half way, and there came to her her father and her brother and the priest and her husband, none of whom knew her. She told stories to her children, and she related all that had happened to her, and her father...
Pàgina 145 - Perseus and Andromeda. (Mohammed Jibril.) There were a brother and sister who kept a cow. They dwelt in a deserted place, and the brother used to go with the cow, while the sister used to sit in the house, and at night they met in the zariba. The sister was of great beauty, and men asked for her, but her brother refused to let the girl be married. One day some men came into the house for the girl, and they conversed ; and the brother came in in the evening and found that men had come for his sister,...
Pàgina 147 - ... So the Sultan gave him many presents, and also a ship. The Sultan's son set sail and came to a town, and when he arrived at the town he became friends with a Sultan, and the Sultan gave him a house. The young man made a hole between the house he was in and the Sultan's house, and he became friends with the Sultan's wife. One day the young man said to the Sultan's wife, " Make some food for me just as you are accustomed to make it for your husband." And he went to the Sultan, and said, "Tonight...
Pàgina 150 - If you do not let me come to the pool you shall not drink." "Sir, we will drink ; leave us," they said. Then he scratched sand into it until the water was gone; and they died of thirst when they found no water. X. (Ismail.) It is said that a Camel possessed altogether a Snake, a Zareba, a Fire, a Flood, and a Lion, and Deceit, and Honesty. Those seven the Camel owned. One day Deceit said, " We might steal the Lion from that big Camel ; let us kill the Lion.
Pàgina 149 - Why do you talk with a blind man ? He can see nothing." And the blind man said, " How do you know a blind man ? " The other one said, " We know a blind man, he is a man who sees nothing." Then the blind man said, " He that is blind is the man who knows nothing, he is blind." IX. (Ismail.) It is said that the Hyaena owned flocks and Man had none. One day Man was looking after the Hyaena's flocks, and the Hyaena went to the council. After this Man thought, and he said, " Let us steal the Hyaena's...
Pàgina 150 - Sumattar, Habr Yunis, Musa Arreh, officers' cook, aged about 40.) In a certain place many men were talking, and there were two men, one of whom was blind and the other was not blind. The man with sight said, " Why do you talk with a blind man ? He can see nothing." And the blind man said, " How do you know a blind man ? " The other one said, " We know a blind man, he is a man who sees nothing.
Pàgina 145 - Where are you going?" And they said, "We are looking for rhinoceros' milk." Then he said, " I have some rhinoceros' milk. What will you give for it ? " And they said, " Whatever you wish." Then he said, " Wealth do I not want, but I will brand my name on the hinder parts of each of you.
Pàgina 148 - The woman is my wife," he said, and the Sultan sat down. The next morning the young man said, "I am sailing." "Very good," he answered. And the young man arranged with VOL. xv. Y the Sultan's wife, and said, " In the morning come through that place, I am sailing." So the woman came through and came to the young man, and he took her to the ship, and sailed. And the young man having run away with the Sultan's wife married her. V. (Ismail, Habr Toljaala, Ahmed Farah, professional poet, aged about 24.)...
Pàgina 149 - Do you take a widow." So he took a widow, and his father said, " Marry her." So he married her. Then his father said, " Tie her with a rope, and when she speaks to you, untie the rope." So he tied her with a rope, and the woman said, " This is not what I have been accustomed to see. What are you doing with me ? " Thereupon he untied the rope. In the morning his father came and said, " What did she say ? " And he answered, " She said to me, ' This is not what I have been...