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Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
milḥā - salt
(DJBA 667)
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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