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Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *mary-
Meaning: wild cat, lion, leopard
Semitic: *namir- 'leopard' (<*na-mir- or met. <*mir-an-)
Egyptian: mꜣy (pyr) 'lion'
Western Chadic: *mur(mur)- 'cheetah' 1, 'jackal' 2, 'hyena' 3
Central Chadic: *mVrVw- 'lion' 1, 'wild cat, serval' 2
East Chadic: *muʔi- 'lion' (if <*musi)
Low East Cushitic: *mor- 'lion'
South Cushitic: *mary- 'wild cat' 1, 'leopard' 2, 'lion' 3
Omotic: Ong mirila (ST) = merнla / mirнla id., morle "serval, genet" (Fl) = Ts moralle "leopard" (ST) + NS
Notes: Cf. HSED 1760 (*mer- 'beast of prey': CCh.; SCush.) and HSED 1886 *numur-: Sem. 'leopard' (<"spotted"); W.Ch. (Ron) 'hyaena'. Cf. also EDE I 56-7: Eg.; ECush.; S.Cush.; C.Ch.
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