Proto-Low East Cushitic: *baw/yar-
Meaning: 'river palm'
Somali: báar 'tree top; Commelina spec.' (<*báàr 'river palm' Heine 1979, 183); beer 'garden' Heine 1978, 54
Oromo (Galla): ? habru, abru, harbū 'sycamore' (LGur. 9; the form habru/abru may continue *ʔabru or be an Amharism, which is less likely because of the difference in pattern; in Gragg 1982, 202, only metathetic harbuu and arbuu 'large fig-tree' are adduced)
Boni: beer 'garden' Heine 1978, 54
Rendille: báàr 'Hyphaene coracea Gaertn., Palmae' (<*báàr 'river palm' Heine 1979, 183)
