Number: 41
Proto-Semitic: *gyŝ ~ *ngŝ
Meaning: 'collect tribesmen for battle or help' ~ 'to collect tribute; to rule'
Hebrew: ngŝ 'to collect (offerings); force to work (people)'; pt. 'slave-driver; tyrant', pl. 'ruling body'
Arabic: niǯāš- 'ruler'; nǯš 'ê. le compère de qn. dans (une vente)'
Epigraphic South Arabian: ngŝ 'to impose tribute', ngŝwn 'king's title'; gys2 'unit, detachment' SD 52
Geʕez (Ethiopian): nǝguŝ LGz 392
Tigre: nägsä 'to be the king (negus)'
Amharic: gʷäsa, gosa 'race, tribe, people' Baet 1050 (LGur 297-8: < Cu)
Harari: gīsti 'mistress of the house LGur 298 (also gifti <Oromo?)
Gurage: Cha gaše, Eža Muh Sod gašše form of address to an elder brother LGur 299; cf. gʷäsa 'kinship, common ancestor, relatives, social class' (LGur 297-8: < Cu); *gist 'lady, respectable old lady; a fwm. spirit that possesses a person' (ibid. 298)
Jibbali: s̃ǝ-gēŝ 'collect (tribe for battle, etc.), s̃ǝ-gyéŝ 'go and ask one's fellow-tribesmen to come and help' (otherwise < 1029
