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Soqotri
náḥag - play; joke
(LS 259, CSOL II 550)
Reconstruction
Proto-MSA
*nḥg
- to play, to dance
(Kogan 2015:564)
The origin of Proto-MSA *nḥg ‘to play, to dance’ is uncertain. Of some interest may be Akk. nagû (negû) ‘to sing joyously’ (CAD N1 123, AHw. 712). (Kogan 2015:564)