See gala in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "2008, Uri Gabbay, The Akkadian word for \"third gender\" / the kalû (gala) once again, in Proceedings of the 51st Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Held at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, July 18-22, 2005 (edited by Robert D. Biggs, Jennie Myers, Martha Tobi Roth), page 50",
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