Geez

malləḥa - to season with salt (CDG 343)

PWS
*milḥ- - salt (Fronzaroli 1971: 621, 634, 641; Kogan 2011: 239)
primary noun *milḥ- ‘salt’ is only marginally attested in EthS, cf. perhaps Gez. məlḥ(ā) ‘sapor, judicium, scientia’, extensively discussed in Bulakh 2005c:333‒334