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Syriac
ˀebbāltā - herd of camels
(LSyr. 2, SL 4)
Reconstruction
Areal reconstruction
*ˀibil-
- camel
(SED II No. 2, Kogan 2011: 207)
one of the four widespread designations of camel in individual languages, the similarity between these designations must be due to diffusion from an Arabian source