G. mab n. “hand(s)” (Category: Hand)

References ✧ GG/10-11, 15; GL/34, 55, 57; LT2A/Ermabwed

Glosses

• “hand” ✧ GG/15; LT2A/Ermabwed; GL/55 (mab)
• “hands” ✧ GL/55

Variations

• mab ✧ GG/11; GG/15; GL/55; GL/57; LT2A/Ermabwed; GL/55 (mab)

Related

• mab “hand” cf. ᴱQ. mapa “seize” ✧ GL/55
• mab “hands” [is the] irregular, dual [of] mô “hand” ✧ GL/55
• ᴱQ. mapa “seize” ✧ LT2A/Ermabwed
• mô “hand” see under mab ✧ GL/57

Changes

• mabid >> mabwid “hands” ✧ GG/11
• mab “hand” >> mab “hands” ✧ GL/55

Inflections

mabid	dative dual		✧ GG/11
mabwid	dative dual	“hands”	✧ GG/11
mabir	dative plural	“hands”	✧ GG/11
gomabwi	dual		✧ GG/10
mabwi	dual	“(a pair of) hands, the hands of one person”	✧ GG/10
mabion	genitive plural	“hands”	✧ GL/34
mabin	plural	“hands”	✧ GG/15
mabin	plural		✧ GL/55

Element In

• G. mablad “palm of the hand” ✧ GL/55 (mablod); LT2A/Ermabwed
• G. Mablui “Hand of Snow”
• G. mabrin(d) “wrist” ✧ GL/55; LT2A/Ermabwed
• G. mavlant “*palm (of hand)” ✧ GL/55
• G. i·fast·a·mabion “washing of hands [before meat]” ✧ GL/34
• G. mabin glossi “white hands” ✧ GG/15
• G. mabinos “plane tree” ✧ GL/55
• G. mablios “cunning” ✧ GL/55; LT2A/Ermabwed
• G. mab ’loss “a white hand” ✧ GG/15
• G. Mablung “Heavy-hand(ed)” ✧ LT2A/Mablung
• G. mabol “skilful” ✧ GL/55; LT2A/Ermabwed
• G. mabwed “handed, having hands, dextrous” ✧ GL/55; LT2A/Ermabwed
• G. nôbi i·mab ’len suila ontha “*he took the slender hand of his daughter” ✧ GG/11
• G. ôni cailthi a·mabwid glen irtha “he pressed a kiss upon her slender hands” ✧ GG/11
• G. ôni cailthi mabir gleni nan·hirilion “he kissed the slender hands of the ladies” ✧ GG/11

Derivations

• < ᴱ√MAPA “seize” ✧ LT2A/Ermabwed