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Tigrinya
märet - earth, soil
(TED 368)
Reconstruction
PES
*maray-t-
- earth, soil
(CDG 361; Kogan 2015: 462)
The Ethiopian lexemes may find a convincing parallel in Proto-Berber *ta-mur-t- ‘earth’ (Militarev 2004:307, 2010:64).