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Hebrew
ˁam - people, clan
(HALOT 837)
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PCS
*ˁamm-
- relatives, clan, people
(Kogan 2011: 235; Kogan 2015: 182)
probably a semantic extension of the kinship term
*ˁamm-
‘grandfather, ancestor’