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Syriac
ḥālā - uncle
(LSyr. 221, SL 451)
Reconstruction
PWS
*ḫāl-
- maternal uncle
(Kogan 2014: 93)
possible candidate for the semantic slot “maternal uncle” but its reflexes are considerably sparse and do not allow one to postulate a reliable PWS reconstruction