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Syriac
laḥmā - bread
(LSyr. 364, SL 685)
Reconstruction
PCS
*laḥm-
- bread, food
(Fronzaroli 1971: 615–616, 632, 640; Kogan 2011: 238; Kogan 2015: 219)
Gez.
lāhm
‘ox, bulľ and Soq
lʼéḥim
‘big fish, shark’ are definitely unrelated to this root The meaning shift from “bread” to “meat” represents a comparatively late innovation in Arabic (Fronazroli 1972:615).