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Amharic
ḳəṭäl - leaf
(AED 829)
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PES
*ḳVṣl-
- leaf
(CDG 450, Kogan 2015: 447)
For possible semantic parallels (“leaf” derived from “to peel, to strip off”) v. Buck 1949:525 (cf. also Appleyard 1977:40).