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Arabic
ˁamm- - a company of men; tribe
(Lane 2149)
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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’