Another word with similar distribution to the word camel.
The word monkey
ugubi in Sumerian
uqupu in Akkadian
kapi in old Persian and Sanskrit
kapik in Armenian
The word in Armenian is usually believed to be a loanword from Persian, but it could be a word of substratic origin. Assuming that Indo Iranian kapi is a loanword from BMAC who themselves have ancestry from NW Iran this latter is quite possible.
Other IE languages have other words for monkey.
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