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Geez
sayəˀ - flagitium, actio turpis vel mala (bad, shameful deed)
(LLA 394, CDG 521)
Very sparsely attested, but cf. perhaps Tna. säyyäˀet ‘she became a whore’ (TED 768), apparently considered an Arabism by T. L. Kane
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PWS
šwˀ
- to be bad
(Kogan 2015: 122)