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Tigre
šərum - slit-lipped
(WTS 211)
Note that morphologically the word is formed as a passive participle from šärmä to break through.
Reconstruction
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*ŝrm
- to have a nose with a cut-off tip; have a slit lip
(SED I No. 69ᵥ)