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Arabic
maǯl- - pus
(BK 2 1065, Piamenta 1990: 460, GD 2676)
the word means ‘blister’ in Classical Arabic, but the meaning ‘pus’ is attested in Yemen and Daṯīna
Reconstruction
PWS
*mugl-
- pus
(SED I No. 186; Kogan 2011: 214)