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Argobba
mǝhǝṭ - labour pains
(Leslau 1997: 211)
Reconstruction
Areal reconstruction
*mḫṣ̂
- to have labour pains
(SED I No. 40v)
Though likely derived from PS *mḫṣ̂ ‘to smite’ (see in HALOT 571, CDG 338), a parallelism in Arb. and Eth. is hardly a fortuitous result of independent semantic development.