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Arabic
nqm - to take revenge
(Lane 3037)
Reconstruction
PCS
*nḳm
- to take revenge
(Kogan 2015: 216)
PCS *nḳm ‘to take revenge’ is clearly related to Gez.
ḳim
‘revenge,’
taḳayyama
‘to take vengeance’. Probably, n- in the CS forms represents a fossilized reflexive marker (Nöldeke (1910:180)).