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Mehri
ˀáybəl - flint
(ML 10)
Reconstruction
Proto-MSA
*ˁibal
- flint
(Kogan 2015:548)
The etymology is uncertain. Consider Arb.
ˀaˁbal
‘a mountain of which stones are white; rough, rugged thick stone which may be red, black or white’. (See Kogan 2015:548 for more detail).