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Soqotri
gédaḥ - to come
(
LS
102;
CSOL I
542, 461;
Naumkin et al. 2015a
:68)
Reconstruction
Proto-MSA
*gdḥ
- to come, to drift ashore
(Kogan 2015: 553)
The origin is uncertain. Clearly related is Arb.
miǯdaḥ-
‘seashore’, but one may doubt that this extremely rare and isolated word is autochtonous in Arabic (Kogan 2015: 553)