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Geez
ḳʷasla - to be wounded, be injured, be covered with sores, be in pain
(CDG 446)
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*ḳʷsl
- to be wounded
(CDG 446; Kogan 2015: 461)
The origin of Proto-EthS *ḳʷsl ‘to be wounded’ is uncertain. Leslau tentatively accepts A. Dillmann’s equation with Arb. qṣl = qṭˁ with dissimilation of emphatics (LLA 431, LA 11 664).