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Tigrinya
kəsaˁ - until, up to, even, as far as (local, temporal)
(TED 1618)
Likely a combination of
*kV
, not preserved in Tigrinya as an independent preposition, and saˁ ‘hour, time’ (Arakelova 2001:18).