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Mehri
kəḥēb - to come in the middle of the day
(ML 226)
The verb widely attested in SAE IX and SAE III, Mundart B “to the detriment of nkˁ, which, nevertheless, apparently preserves its basic status in all Mehri corpora” (Kogan 2015:494)
Reconstruction
Proto-MSA
*ḳhb
- to be in daytime
(Kogan 2015:561)
The origin is unknown.