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Amharic
angät - neck
(AED 1247)
Also Old. Amh. ḥangät, ˀangät, Littmann 1943:484, 492, ḥangät, Ludolf 6.
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Areal reconstruction
*ˁVng(-at)-
- neck
(SED I 18)
Compared to Afras. *ˁVng- ‘neck, throat’ in SED I. May be also attested in Ebla: in-gu /ˁingu(m)/ or /ˁinḳu(m)/ ‘neck’, cf. SED I p. 18.