Words

Geez
balˁa - to eat (CDG 95)
Geez
balbala - become old (CDG 95)
reduplicated root
Geez
balḫa - to be sharp (CDG 95)
Geez
balla - to spoil, to ruin, to destroy; to mix, to confuse; to moisten, to wet (CDG 96)
Geez
balaṣa - to be shrewd, cunning, smart (CDG 97)

Leslau states (CDG 97) that the meaning ‘cheat, shrewd’ is secondary to ‘exceed’.

Geez
balaṣa - to sparkle, to glitter (CDG 97)
Geez
ballata - to separate, to cut meat into pieces (CDG 97)
Geez
balya - to be old, worn-out (CDG 98)
bəluy = old, ancient, obsolete, worn out
Geez
bənt-a ˁayn - pupil of the eye (CDG 99)
with a widely attested semantic shift (Militarev/Kogan 2003: 293–295; for a peculiar parallel in Amh. yä-ayn bərät see Kogan 2003: 127–128)
Geez
bərˁ - reed, reed pen, branch of a chandelier, stalk, stem of fruit, stubble (CDG 101, LLA 506)