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Amharic
əgər - foot, leg
(AED 1325)
Also Old Amh. ˀəgər, Littmann 1943:493.
Reconstruction
PWS
*ˀi(n)gi/ur-
- foot
(SED I No. 7; Kogan 2015: 441)
independent root (SED I No. 7) or corresponds to
*rigl-
- foot, through a highly peculiar phonological evolution (Voigt 1998a)