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Geez
wallaṭa - to change, exchange, alter, barter; to transcribe, register
(CDG 614)
Reconstruction
PES
*wlṭ/*lwṭ
- to change
(CDG 614; Kogan 2015: 464)
The origin of Proto-EthS *wlṭ/*lwṭ ‘to change’ is uncertain, but it might be related to PWS
*lwṭ
‘to twist, to turn, to do a second time’.