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Mehri
náyḳi - to be pure, clean, cleansed
(ML 298)
probably borrowed from Arabic
Reconstruction
PCS
*nḳy
- to be clean
(Kogan 2015: 216)
Origin uncertain. Hardly any connection with Akk.
naḳû
‘to pour out as a libation’ (Kogan 2015: 216).