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*ḫmr - to foam, to ferment
(Kogan 2015: 212)
PWS unless Tigre and MSA verbs are not borrowed from Arabic
Words
Hebrew
ḥmr
- to foam
(HALOT 330)
Christian Palestinian Aramaic
ḥmr
- fermentatus est (to be fermented)
(Schulthess 66)
Arabic
ḫmr
- to make dough ferment
(Lane 808)
Tigre
ḥamrä
- to ferment, to turn sour
(WTS 60)
Mehri
ḫátmər
- to be dirty and smell bad
(ML 444)
Jibbali
ḫɔ́tmər
- to go rotten, to ferment; to be dirty and smell bad
(JL 302)
Soqotri
ḥámreʰ
- something dirty, mud; sediment
(
Naumkin–Kogan 2021
:531; CSOL III)