Derived from the verbal root *wˁl ‘to spend the day,’ for which no persuasive etymology has been suggested so far (cf. CDG 603).
PES
*ˁanḳar - throat, uvula, neck
(SED I 16–17)
<*ˁVnḳ- with suffixed -r?
PES
*ˁrḳ - to be naked
(CDG 71, Kogan 2015: 453)
May be related to PWS *ˁVṣ̂ā/īṣ̂- ‘(kind of) bone’ (for this meaning shift, cf. Rus. кость meaning both ‘bone’ and ‘playing die’).
PES
*ˁaŝā - fish
(Dolgopolsky 1973:293, Appleyard 1977:42, Kogan 2015: 449)
Clearly borrowed from Cushitic.
PES
*bkl - to pollute, to stain
(EDA I 156)
PES
*bḳl - to get revenge
(EDA I 154)
Since this word is absent from Geez, Tigre and Tigrinya, the reconstruction is rather Proto-South Ethio-Semitic.
PES
*bḳʷˁ - to fit, to be sufficient
(CDG 99, Kogan 2015: 459)
The origin of Proto-EthS *bḳʷˁ ‘to be sufficient’ is uncertain, but note Arb. bqˁ = ˀiktafā (TA 20 346).
PES
*blˁ - to eat
(Kogan 2015: 445)