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The paper draws some lexicostatistical conclusions from the multitude of the new etymological entries to Berber lexical roots with initial dentals published recently on the pages of EDB in parts XIV-XVI of our long-range series „Some Berber Etymologies”. This series, when completed, may eventually result in editing its materials for an etymological dictionary of the Berber root invotory, a desired addition to the complement interrupted series of fascicles of the comparative dictionary of Berber roots (DRB). The planned volumes of Materials of a Berber Etymological Dictionary (MBED) are to encompass hundreds of new etymologies each in the context of the Afro-Asiatic cognate lexical materials.