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rəmyat - piercing, wound, injury, infected wound, ulcer, swelling of a wound, skin rash, scar
(CDG 472)
Var. rəmet. Leslau unconvincingly derives it from ramaya ‘to throw, pierce, strike by throwing, strike with a spear’.
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*rVm-
- kind of skin ulcer; mole, mark on the skin
(SED I No. 233)
A biconsonantal root with various ways of triconsonantization throughout Sem.