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Syriac
ˁammā - people, nation
(LSyr. 529, SL 1108)
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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’