kor-ó-koray

Verb vi.

Translations

Français: Être très blanc
English: to be very white
العربية: كان شديد البياض

Source : Christiansen-Bolli (2010), annexe IV — French and Arabic meanings translated from English, to be checked by the community

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). kor-ó-koray (to be very white). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/633-kor-o-koray (accessed 2026-10-18)

BibTeX

@misc{moctarkorokoray,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{kor-ó-koray (to be very white)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/633-kor-o-koray},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… q anóɣo borá eternity to run to leave fruit, sp. tree, sp. to be dry skin disease person tús guná yúhu kurúkuru to erase sight to be born to burn dós borá yóṛu korókoray ǝ/u ǝ/o a/u a/o u/o to touch person to be worn to be very white The evidence for short /e/ is relatively weak since there are only few lexemes with /e/ on the whole, and /e/ is especially rare in open syllables. Consider the examples below under /ee/. (18) Long vowel contrasts V i/ii íbatan ízzay ikádan cijí …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 38
… to attach many kós to cut koskós to cut in pieces mún to throw out munmún to throw out (repeatedly) cidáy to be red cidícidi to be very red kóoray to be white korókoray to be very white ceená to be small cinícina to be very small báqbaq The disyllabic roots shown in (b) above reduplicate the initial CVC. A copy vowel is inserted to link to the complete second segment. All

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 86

kor-ó-koray

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