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Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *lVʔVb- ~ *ʔVlb- (?)
Meaning: elephant/hippopotamus
Western Chadic: *lab-at- 'elephant'
East Chadic: *ʔVlb- 'elephant'
High East Cushitic: (?) *lVʔVb- 'hippopotamus'
Notes: Cf. HSED, 1662 *leb- 'elephant' comparing Eg. ;bw, Tangale and Mokilko forms; and also Logone nevi 'elephant' with "irregular n- <*l-" (hardly comparable).
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