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*nāb-, *nib(b)- - nit
(SED II No. 157; Kogan 2011: 213)
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Akkadian
nābu
- a louse
(CAD N₁ 40, AHw. 699)
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
nābā
- louse's egg
(DJBA 725)
ˀinbā ‘eggs of lice, nits’ (Jastrow 80, Levy I 104, DJBA 118)
Syriac
nābā
- louse, nit
(LSyr. 418, SL 882)
Turoyo
nawto
- Lauseei, Nisse (lice egg, nit)
(RW 361)
Mehri
ḥaunîb
- type of louse that spreads all over the body
(Jahn 1902: 194)
Soqotri
nib
- nit
(
Naumkin et al. 2013a
:78)