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Mehri
ḥə-ybīt - she-camel
(JM 2)
haybbît ‘Kameelin’ (Jahn 186)
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