_Hold me the rope_, sennikfāhi.
_The Tawárek are very clever in making good ropes of leather_,
Imōshagh adíbăbén dar érŏnan.
_Those ropes—from (the bark of) what tree do they make them?_
eréwiyen wādagh innagh éhishkan wuí téllĕnin (_or_, wuí dígmăden).
_I weave woollen blankets_, zātagh tibbergentin.
_Which understand weaving better—the Fullán or the Songhay?_
endekway ísan [endegh way isan] tézi tehōsken, jer Afūlan ped (?)
Éhatan? _or_, emállĕten wuín Éhatan du wuín Fūlan megeressen yúfa
tézetí?
_All of them know good weaving_ esanántet iketenéssen tézit
tehōsken.
[Note: _Yellim_, he spun, Vent.; Ar. _lemm_, glomeravit. Presently, for
_tellĕnin_ read _tellĕmin_, they twine?
_Sennikf_; root _nikf_? or _ikfa_?
_Aran_, leather-rope; pl. _erŏnan_ (vocab.).
_Erewi_, a (hempen) rope; so Kab.
_Izat_, he weaves; _tezit_, weaving. In Kab. _zeṭ_, weave thou.
_Way-isan_, who knew.
_Emálleten_, the cloths? the garments? the tissues?
_Wui-n-Ehatan_, &c.
_Du_, and?
_Me-ger-assen_, which betwixt them; _i.e._ which of the two?
_Yufa_, surpasses, excels.
_Esanantet_ must be fem. pl. from _isan_, he knew.]
183. _The women pluck the cotton_, tídĕdēn ítafash fásĕnit, _or_,
ítafash tíkurukarēn.
[Note: _Itafashfas_, he plucked (cotton).
_Tikurukarēn_, cottons; sing. _takerókerit_, from _-enit_, 3rd pl. fem.
_Ikarkar_, he cleansed? See 164.]