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Tigrinya
ḥamot - bile
(Bass. 40)
Reconstruction
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*ḥim-at-
- venom, bile
(SED I No. 120)
Cf. Sem. *ḥi/am-at- ‘anger, rage’, *ḥmy ‘to be angry’ presumably derived from this root (otherwise from Sem. *ḥmm, *ḥmy ‘to be hot’)