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Amharic
därämän - affliction of the scalp or skin which causes whitish patches that itch
(AED 1736)
-m- is hard to explain; metathetic from *daran-am with suffixed -m?
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PCS
*daran-
- (kind of) skin disease
(SED I No. 58)
Or PWS? Probably from *dar(r/ˀ)-an-, with -n suffixed; cf. Arb.
drˀ
and Cha.
dära
, Ezha
dära
, Gye.
dära
, Muh.
däna
, End.
däna
; note also Enn.
dä̃ra
which may be alternatively compared to danr, with metathesis).