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Amharic
allälä - to be in heat (equines); to desire sex
(AED 1102)
Semanically possible, but hard to prove.
Reconstruction
PS
*hll
- to be imbecile, weak-minded, mad; be mocked at
(SED I No. 19ᵥ)
Originally rather a biconsonantal stem. Note various ways of triconsonantization in Eth. and a full reduplication in Arb. and Soq.