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Mehri
fəŝō - to lunch
(ML 105)
Reconstruction
Proto-MSA
*fŝy
- to have lunch
(Kogan 2015:568)
The origin of Proto-MSA *fŝy ‘to have lunch’ is obscure, none of the putative etymological explanations discussed in LS 343 is persuasive. Hardly any connection with
Tgr.
,
Tna.
and
Amh.
fəsso ‘dried meat’ (Kogan 2015:568)