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Mehri
ḥəblēt, ḥəbēl - umbilical cord
(ML 164)
Reconstruction
Proto-MSA
*ḥablat-
- umbilical cord
(SED I No. 110)
Connection with PCS
*ḥbl
‘to be pregnant, conceive; to have labor pains’ is uncertain, see the discussion there.