Amharic

gʷäfla - skin of a dead calf which is stuffed with straw and placed beside the cow during milking so that she will continue to let down milk (AED 2073)

Areal reconstruction
*gʷafl-/*gVfn- - stuffed skin given in place of her young one to a bereaved mother-animal (EDG 266, DRS 170, Kogan 2015: 554)
MSA + Southern EthS. The ultimate origin of this peculiar areal isogloss is obscure. Any connection with Arb. ǯafn- ‘scabbard, sheath’? (Kogan 2015: 554)