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Akkadian
kamˀatu - truffle
(CAD K 120, AHw. 432)
J.-M. Durand suggests that the word designates not the truffle, but a different type of mushroom (Durand 1997:312). According to H. Reculeau it should be a representative of terfezia family. For the etymology, see the discussion in Kogan 2012a:257f.
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PS
*kamˀ-at-
- a kind of mushroom
(Kogan 2011: 202)