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Geez
nadda - to burn (intr.)
(CDG 385)
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PES
*ndd
- to burn (intransitive)
(CDG 385; Kogan 2015: 463)
The origin of Proto-EthS *ndd ‘to burn’ is uncertain. Leslau tentatively compares Arb. ndˀ ‘to cast flesh-meat into the fire, to bury a cake of bread in hot ashes’ (Lane 2778).