General index
abstract properties (grammar)
123–124
Achaemenids
96–97
Aden (Protectorate)
49, 52–53, 68, 99–100
Afro-Soqotrans
84
Aksum, kingdom of
77–78, 83, 99, 101–102
alliteration
338–339
aloe
81, 84, 159, 163, 170, 186
antlion
194
anatomic terms (possession)
120, 131–132
ants
138–139, 153, 181–182
assonance
335, 338–339
Babylonian Talmud
92–95, 104
Baṭāḥira
428, 430
battening
260–262, 265–266
beam (weaving)
245, 249–255, 257, 260, 264–267, 274
cloth beam
249–255, 260, 262–263, 265–267, 274
warp beam
251–255, 257, 260, 262–263, 265, 274–275
beating “sword” (weaving)
242, 254, 260–261, 265–266, 271, 273
bee(s)
177, 194–202
carpenter bee
194
beetle(s)
138–143, 191–194
blister beetle
191
click beetle
192–193
diving beetle
189
dung beetle
192
flour beetles
142
hister beetle
191
jewel beetle
191
longhorn beetle
192, 228
water beetle
187–189
whirligig beetle
187, 189
Berenike (site)
78, 79
blowflies
163
botfly
164–165, 169
“bow” (carding)
241–243, 273
bug(s)
189–190, 193
aquatic saucer bug
205
creeping water bug
205
bed bugs
138, 150–152
terrestrial bugs
190–192
butter, fresh/clarified (Soqotra)
139, 141, 144, 157, 159, 168–171, 182, 193–194
butterfly
235–236
caterpillars
178, 228–231, 235
cats, feral (Soqotra)
72, 75, 95, 138, 237
centipedes
137–138, 157, 176, 178, 213, 219, 231
giant centipede
137–138, 157, 176, 217, 219
reddish centipede
231
chameleon
214, 225–228, 230
“cheese” (Soqotra)
139
Christianity
in Aksum
83
in Najran
83
on Soqotra
82–85, 101–106
in Southern Arabia
82, 101
Church of the East
101–103
cicada(s)
202, 208–209
civet cat
138, 142
clouds designations (Mehri)
348–350, 355–356, 371, 383–384
cockroach
152
conjunctural narrative
41, 44–46, 49, 61, 63–64
counter-shed (weaving)
259–260, 265, 266
crow/raven/corvid(s)
138, 157, 177, 213, 327, 329–330, 332–337, 342–346
crickets
194, 202, 205–208, 210
bush cricket
207–208
cultural narrative
45
daddy longlegs
205–206
damselflies
194–195
date syrup
208
debates, poetic
324, 327, 329, 332, 337–338, 346
Dhofari revolution
427
diatonic minor scale (Dhofari songs)
394–395
diggerwasp
194
domestication (cat)
71–73, 91–93, 95
dragon blood tree
80–81, 84, 214
earthworms
224, 228
eels
213–214
moray eel
213
shortfin eel
214
elongation, vocalic
349–350, 354, 356–367, 369–377, 379, 381–382
“ethno-regionalism”
54–55
expressive morphology
348–352, 382
fabric (weaving)
239, 249, 261–262, 265–267, 271, 274
figurative language
338, 341
finger-millet
137, 170, 203, 230–231
flatworms
233
fleas
138–139, 145–150, 158–159
flies
137–139, 142, 159–160, 162–164, 167, 172, 204, 226, 380–382, 385
crane fly
205
flesh flies
163
robber fly
195
foreknowledge
216
forest cats (Madagascar)
90
frame (weaving)
240, 251, 255, 262
frankincence
80–81, 324, 327–329, 331–335, 341, 343, 430, 439
gadfly
162
gecko
138–139, 158, 209, 214, 216–220, 222, 225, 327, 336, 340, 342, 345
dragon-tree gecko
214
nocturnal
216
small semaphore gecko
217
grasshoppers
202–207, 209
Greeks, on Soqotra
81–82, 97, 101, 103
Günther’s racer
210
Hadramawt (ancient kingdom)
81, 98
heddle(s)
253, 256, 258–260, 263–265, 274
heddle bar
249, 254, 256–260, 263–265, 267, 269, 273–274
heddling
253, 256, 260, 262–266, 269
Himyar (kingdom)
77, 79, 83, 98–99, 100, 102
honey
177, 197–202, 218
hornets
138, 142, 162, 166, 167, 184, 190, 194–196
Huthi regime
51–52
Ibadism
79, 83–84
ideophones
351, 355
“idle glottis” consonants/effect
26, 29, 402–403, 408, 410, 414, 418–420, 422
Imamate (Yemen)
47, 49, 51
intensity rise (phonetics)
349–350
Iranian influences, on Jews/Judaism
94–95, 105
ivory
77–78
kinship terms (possession)
25, 27
Kosh site
96–97, 105
Kumzari language
69–70, 85, 87–89, 96, 103–104, 106
larvae
139–140, 163–164, 166, 185–188, 228, 231
lice
138, 143–145, 149, 155, 157–158
lionfish
220
lizard(s)
327, 336, 340, 342, 345
amphisbaenid worm lizard
235
blind
224
legless
210
pink short worm lizard
224
wall lizard
220
warm lizard
233
locust(s)
203–205, 207–208, 210
loom (weaving)
239–242, 245, 247, 249–256, 258, 260–262, 265, 267, 270–271, 274
low accessibility (grammar)
119, 132
Luluyyah site
90
maggots
163–164, 192, 228
malaria
171, 186, 192
mange
158
Mehri Center for Studies and Research
324, 326
Mehri dialects
448, 471–474, 492
dialect of Hawf
328–329
Dhofari Mehri
328, 392–393
Miaphysites
101
Middle Persian
70, 86–87, 89, 96, 100, 102–105
mites
138–139, 158–159
itch mite
159
red velvet mite
158
monsoon
80, 101, 142, 145, 149, 155, 160, 163, 165–166, 185, 218, 377–380, 385, 430, 437
mosquitoes
139, 159, 171–172, 185–186
nematodes, free living
233
“neo-tribalism”
49
nomadism
430
“non-physical body parts” (possession)
123
Oxford expedition (to Soqotra)
68, 70
parallelism (poetics)
338, 340–341
“parasite h”
24–33, 36
Parthians
91, 98
“parts by association” (possession)
125
pastoralism
57–59, 69, 428
Persian Christians (on Sri Lanka)
106
Phanom Surin shipwreck
105
picking (weaving)
262, 265
pirates (Soqotra)
84
pitch (phonetics)
349–351, 355, 358–360, 365–367, 379, 381–382
poetry, oral
270, 324–326, 431, 342–344
poetry challenge, annual (Soqotra)
338
the Portugese (on Soqotra)
73, 85
possessive relations
body part relation
120–123, 130, 132
part–whole relation
119–120, 122, 129–130
place–inhabitant relation
124
product–source relation
127–130
spatial relation
122–123
praying mantis
206
Qalhāt site
90
Qusayr al-Qadīm site
78, 90, 93
racer, Socotran
210–211
rat(s)
90–91, 93, 138, 142
personified (Mehri debate poems)
327, 336–337, 340, 342, 344–345
reduplication, lexical
341, 349–350, 357, 362, 364–365, 366–367, 374–376, 379–380, 382
regionalistic antagonism (Yemen)
52, 54
rhythm
338–339
rhyme
339, 341
roots, consonantal (Mehri)
biliteral
271, 289, 294–296, 297, 300, 304
quadriliteral
281, 297–303
triliteral
281–294, 297, 300–302, 304
Saba’ (Sabaic, Sabaean)
77, 79, 81, 83, 98–100, 102
Sasanid(s) (Sasanian)
70, 82–83, 86–87, 91–92, 94–101, 103–106
sawfly
194
scorpion
138, 173–175, 189, 191, 196, 219, 230, 301
scorpionfish
220
secessionism (Yemen)
49, 54
sedentarism, sedentarization
45, 47, 250, 271, 427, 430, 434
segmentary lineage theory
46, 48
semantic density (poetry)
338–339
shed (weaving)
249, 254, 256, 259–261, 265–266
shedding
262, 265
shed stick
249, 254, 258–260, 265–266, 273
skink(s)
139, 218–220, 222, 233
Skudrians
97
slave(ry)
55–57, 59, 83–84, 99, 433–434, 436
snake(s)/serpent(s)
93, 138, 184, 210, 210–215, 217–219, 224, 233–235
blind
210, 224
fossorial
233, 235
thread snake
224
Somalia, excavations in
98
sorcery/witchcraft
84, 95–96, 106, 186, 211, 222–223, 236–237
Southern Transitional Council
64
spider(s)
138, 179–181
Arabian widow spider
180
camel spider
180
spindle
241–242, 244–245, 273–275
starling
142, 156–157, 333–343, 439
stipendiary regime (Yemen)
48, 50, 52
stratified mosaic society paradigm
46–47
structural narrative
45–46
Sultanate, of Mahra and Soqotra
55–59, 63, 68, 85
Tall ‘Akkāz site
91
tamarind
229
tapeworms
231
tarantula
136, 138, 178–179
termites
138, 152–155, 182
ticks
138–139, 148, 150, 155–158
toothcarp, Arabian
186
“Torpedo jar”
97–98, 105
traveling theory
41–43
“Tribal Honor Document”
51
tribe, tribalism
39–56, 61–63, 343, 392, 426–435, 439
customary
43
libertarian
49–50
modern
43
neo-tribalism
49
organic
44
ontological
43
republican
49–50
traditional
43
Umayyads
79
Unguja Ukuu site
90
vermin
81, 91–93, 95, 104, 136, 138, 219
“Vienna corpus” of MSA texts
Soqotri
23–24, 29, 33, 119–120, 122, 124–126, 456–458, 462
Mehri
471, 474–475
warp (threads)
242, 245, 249, 251–267, 273–275
warping
251–252, 262–263
wasps
138, 190, 194, 196
black mud dauber wasp
194
solitary wasp
195
wood boring wasp
194
water boatman (insect)
188
water designations (Mehri)
348–350, 357–369, 373–376, 382–384
weevils
138–139, 142
weft threads
245, 254, 256, 259–262, 264–267, 275
weft winding
262, 264
whorl
241, 245, 274
wind designations (Mehri)
348–349, 368, 371, 373, 377–381, 383–385
woolen rugs (Soqotra)
239–241, 270, 273
woodlice
136–137
worm lizard, amphisbaenid
210, 235
worms
163–164, 182, 185, 192, 224, 228, 231–233, 235
endoparasitic round
233
intestinal
228, 231–232
pink-brown
228
round
233
yarn
239–242, 246, 271, 273, 275
Yemen (North) 1962 revolution
47–50
Yemen (South) 1967 revolution
57, 63
Zoroastrism
93–96, 104