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Geez
gadəy - capricorn
(CDG 183)
Borrowing from Arabic.
Reconstruction
PCS
*gady-
- kid
(SED II No. 76; Kogan 2011: 206; Kogan 2015: 184)
For a tentative comparison with the verbal root
*gdy
‘to cut’ v. DRS 100‒101
For a possible connection with PIE *gʰaid- v. Gamkrelidze–Ivanov 1984:872