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Geez
ḳadḥa - to be sick, perspire, have diarrhea
(CDG 420)
Reconstruction
PS
*ḳdḥ
- to have inflammation
(SED I No. 35v)
Must be eventually derived from PS *ḳdḥ ‘to light up fire’.