Proto-MSA

*ḫlš - to abort (Kogan 2015: 558)

*ḫlš - to tear out (Kogan 2015: 558–559)

Contra SED I No. 33, there is no connection between this root and PS *ḫyl ‘to be in labor.’

Mehri

əḫtōləh - to give birth prematurely, abort (ML 440)

Jibbali

ḫɔ́tləš - to abort (JL 300)

Soqotri

(3 sg. f.) ḥtéḷʸhoʰ - to bear a child before due time, to miscarry, abort (about a human being) (LS 178; Bulakh et al. 2021:241; Naumkin et al. 2022:276; Bulakh 2024:145)