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Areal reconstruction
*nāḳ-at- - camel
(SED II No. 161, Kogan 2011: 207)
one of the four widespread designations of camel in individual languages, the similarity between these designations must be due to diffusion from an Arabian source
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Akkadian
anaḳāte
- camel
(CAD A₂ 112, AHw. 50)
Var. na-ḳa-ti ‘she-cameľ NB, HapLeg in ABL 527 rev. 11. (Livingstone 1997 260)
Hebrew
nāḳā, ănāḳā
- camel
(Jastrow 867)
pB.
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
ˀnḳh
- female camel
(DJPA 66)
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
nā(ˀ)ḳtā, nāḳā
- camel
(Ja. 967)
Arabic
nāqat-
- she-camel
(Lane 227)
is hardly related to *ynḳ ‘to suck’
Sabaic
nḳt
- camel
(SD 101)
Geez
nāḳat, nāḳāt
- camel
(CDG 401)