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Mehri
šɛzər - span of thumb to forefinger
(ML 596)
in English-Mehri Wordlist
Reconstruction
PWS
*šV(n)zVr-, ŝV(n)zVr-
- span
(SED I No. 251)
A very complicated case. Attested with the meaning ‘span’ in Eth. and MSA only.