MGDL

The second part of al-Jallad's paper is invaluable as a collection of Aramaisms in Safaitic. One strikes my eye: mgdl.

This is some sort of construction within the fortified town al-Namâra - one assumes, a motte. The same consonant-cluster exists in Dadanitic. As al-Jallad points out, Aramaic-speakers in Roman Judaea knew the magdala tower.

But despite Al-Jallad: need this Namârene motte be magdala? Classical Arabic has migdal with an i and no trailing stop, like Qâric minbar and mihrab. I'm pondering South Arabian for the Classical Arabic. Another possibility is Canaan. Or maybe old Taymanitic mediating between all the pre-Classical Tihama.

I'd leave open the question in Safaitic precisely because it is not mgdl' or mgdlt.