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Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *tam(-an)-
Meaning: fish
Semitic: *taman- 'snake, dragon' (?)
Egyptian: tm.t (med) 'kind of fish'
Central Chadic: *ta/um- 'to fish' 1, 'fish' 2
Notes: This root may be a second component of a Cush composite for 'fish': LEC *ḳur-tum- (Or qurtummi, Gdl kurtum-et) and HEC *ḳir-tum-/*ḳur-tum- (Sid ḳiltiʔmi, Dar ḳultuʔme, Had ḳurṭume, Ala ḳurč̣um-et, Bmb ḳur-ṭume, Kmb ḳurtum). Cf. also Sem. *tVnnVn- '(mythical) snake, dragon'.
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