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Arabic
nāqat- - she-camel
(Lane 227)
is hardly related to *ynḳ ‘to suck’
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