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Amharic
gʷäbäbb alä - to be hunchbacked
(AED 1980)
Reconstruction
PWS
*gVb(V)b-, gVb(b)-an-
- hump, hunchback
(SED I No. 67; Kogan 2011: 230)
The root is likely related to *ganb- ‘side and back of torso’ (SED I No. 85). Though traditionally identified with Sem. *gbb ‘to be bent’ ([CDG 177], [DRS 94]), the present root is rather influenced by, than related to, the latter.