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Tigrinya
mərraḳ - saliva (saliva)
(TED 561, Bassano 1918: 83)
Reconstruction
PWS
*rḳ
- to spit
(SED I No. 81ᵥ)
Reconstructed as a biconsonantal element with various triconsonantizing augments in individual languages