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Soqotri
ḥámla - tick
(Naumkin–Porhomovskiy 1981: 65)
Reconstruction
PS
*ḫaml-, *ḫVlVm-
- kind of insect
(SED II No. 109)
The reconstruction is not very reliable as it presupposes metathesis combined with a rather vague semantic correspondence.