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Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *masak-
Meaning: skin
Semitic: *ma/išk- 'skin'
Egyptian: mskꜣ 'skin, hide' (pyr)
Notes: Beḍ mesík 'Haut, Fell' (Rein Beḍ 173) must be an Arabism.
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Semitic etymology :

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Number: 2156
Proto-Semitic: *ma/išk- {} *ma/isk-
Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology
Meaning: skin
Akkadian: mašku 'skin, leather' OAkk on [CAD m2 376], [AHw 627]
Hebrew: mäšäk 'leather pouch' [KB 646] (with a meaning shift)
Aramaic: OFF PLM mšk 'skin, hide' [HJ 700]
Judaic Aramaic: mǝšak (maškā, miškā, moškā) [Ja 854]; mšk, det. mškh 'hide, skin, leather' [Sok 334]
Syrian Aramaic: meškā 'cutis' [Brock 407]
Modern Aramaic: MMND meškā 'skin' [M MND 520] AZRB miška 'skin' [Garb 319]
Mandaic Aramaic: miška 'skin' [DM 270] (sporadically maška [ibid. 255]; cf. masik- 'fresh peel, bark')
Arabic: mask- 'peau ôtée récemment d'un agneau ou d'un chevreau' [BK 2 1106]
Harari: (?) miskät 'buttocks' [LHar 112]
East Ethiopic: (?) SEL WOL ZWY mǝskät 'back of body; clitoris, female genital organs' [LGur 428].

    Semantically difficult (probably a parallel development can be seen in ARB ǧild- ~ ǧald- 'verge, pénis' [BK 1 313])

Notes: [Fron 41] (*mašk- 'pelle (totta dal corpo)' /ARB,SYR,HBR,AKK/); [Holma 3]: AKK, HBR, SYR, ARB; [KB 646]: HBR, ARM, AKK, ARB; [Brock 407]: SYR, ARM, HBR, ARB, AKK
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Old Egyptian: mskꜣ (pyr)
Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology
Meaning: 'skin, hide'
Notes: Final -ꜣ may indicate *a of the second syllable.
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