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Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *ma/iṭw- ~ *may/wṭ-
Meaning: stick; branch (of a palm tree?)
Semitic: *ma/iṭ(ṭ/w)- ~ *mVyṭ- 'staff, rod, branch of a tree'
Egyptian: *mṭw 'stick, baton, staff'
Central Chadic: *mVṭ- 'baobab' (?)
East Chadic: *mawaT- 'k. of tree' (?)
Low East Cushitic: *mayṭ- 'palm tree'
High East Cushitic: *mayṭ- 'palm tree'
Omotic: *mi(n)ṭ- 'tree'
Notes: Cf. HSED, 1750 *maw/yaṭ- 'tree' (CCh, Mok.; Oromo) and 1807 *muṭ- 'stick' (Hbr. maṭe, mistake, and Eg.)
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