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Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
nā(ˀ)ḳtā, nāḳā - camel
(Ja. 967)
Reconstruction
Areal reconstruction
*nāḳ-at-
- camel
(SED II No. 161, Kogan 2011: 207)
one of the four widespread designations of camel in individual languages, the similarity between these designations must be due to diffusion from an Arabian source