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Tigrinya
fäläṭä - to discriminate, to discern; to know
(TED 2644)
The meaning shift ‘to split, divide’ > ‘to know’ is unproblematic, cf. Hbr.
bān
, hēbīn ‘to understand’
Reconstruction
PWS
*plṭ
- to split, to separate
(CDG 161)