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Akkadian
ibilu - Arabian camel, dromedary
(CAD I 2, AHw. 363)
“a late literary term of limited frequency ... which can hardly be regarded as genuine in Akkadian (cf. discussion in CAD s.v.)” (SED II 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