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Number: 2162
Proto-Semitic: *nagd-
Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology
Meaning: breast
Arabic: naǯd- 'mamelle' [BK 2 1201].

    Cf. also naǧūd- 'qui a une long encolure (chamelle, anesse, etc.' [ibid. 1201-2] and minǧad- 'parure du cou de femme, collier...descendant jusqu'au bas du sein' [ibid. 1202]

Geʕez (Ethiopian): ʔǝngǝdʔā (ʔǝngǝdʕā) 'breast, chest' [LGz 29]
Tigrai (Tigriñña): ʔǝngǝdʕa 'dorso, schiena' [Bass 537].

    TNA -ʕ- shows that the "correct" laryngeal in GEZ is not -ʔ- but -ʕ-

Notes: Problematic; scarce attestation in ARB and ETH only.

    Cf. HBR nägäd 'that which is opposite, that which corresponds; in front of, before' [KB 666], which is very likely related with a current meaning shift.

    Comparison of the ETH forms (to be reconstructed as *ʔa-ngVd-aʕ-) to ARB naǧd- by Dietrich and HBR nägäd by Rabin is unconvincingly qualified by Leslau [LGz 29] as not satisfactory; as for a peculiar ending in ETH, see GEZ sanbuʔ, sambuʕ in *sināp/b- (No. ).

    Note SOQ ʔegídoh 'en face' [LS 50]; related with -n- lost and a current semantic shift?

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