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Tigre
mäˁal, məˁəl - day
(WTS 443)
Reconstruction
PES
*ˁVl-at-/*maˁal-t-
- day
(Kogan 2015: 459)
Derived from the verbal root *wˁl ‘to spend the day,’ for which no persuasive etymology has been suggested so far (cf. CDG 603).