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Mandaic
aria - lion
(MD 37)
(pl. ariauata)
M. Mnd. āryā ‘Löwe’ (Macuch NT 368).
Reconstruction
PNWS
*ˀarway-/*ˀaryay-
- lion
(SED II Nos. 17, 18; Kogan 2015: 236)
semantic narrowing from a more general meaning “wild beast” in PWS