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Akkadian
maḫāˀu - (kinship term)
(CAD M₁ 85, AHw. 582)
Fem. maḫātu. ‘Onkel? Tante?’ (AHw. 582); ‘possibly elder brother or sister’ (CAD M₁ 85).
Cf. Gez.
ˀəmməḥew
‘grandfather’ and related terms of EthS. (Kogan 2014: 94).