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Masqan
gamela - camel
(EDG 277)
Reconstruction
Areal reconstruction
*gamal-
- camel
(SED II No. 79, Kogan 2011: 207)
One of the four widespread designations of camel in individual languages; the similarity between these designations must be due to diffusion from an Arabian source.