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Akkadian
mallaḫtu - a plant
(CAD M₁ 169, AHw. 596)
Even if it is identical to Hbr.
mallūaḥ
, of uncertain meaning (let alone botanical identification), cf. Arb.
malūḫiyyat-
, with ḫ rather than ḥ. both rare and late and may well be a WS loanword if at all related to
*milḥ-
- salt
Reconstruction
PWS
*milḥ-
- salt
(Fronzaroli 1971: 621, 634, 641; Kogan 2011: 239)
primary noun *milḥ- ‘salt’ is only marginally attested in EthS, cf. perhaps Gez.
məlḥ(ā)
‘sapor, judicium, scientia’, extensively discussed in Bulakh 2005c:333‒334