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PS
*psḥ/ḫ - to be lame; have a dislocated limb
(SED I No. 54ᵥ; HALOT 947)
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Akkadian
pessû
- lame, crippled
(CAD P 327, AHw. 856)
Hebrew
psḥ
- to be lame, limp
(HALOT 947)
Hebrew
pissēaḥ
- limping
(HALOT 948)
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
psḥ
- to leap over
(DJPA 439)
May be related.
Arabic
fsḫ
- to dislocate, to remove from its place, to separate, to disperse; to be weak in intellect and in body
(BK 2 592, Lane 2395)
Alternatively, may go back to PWS
*pṣḥ
‘to smash, to grind’ or PWS
*pšḫ
‘to break off, to separate’.
Arabic
fšḫ
- II. avoir les membres du corps lâches, sans vigeur (to have loose body members, without vigor)
(BK 2 592)
Related as a variant root with š vs. s and a meaning shift?
Ennemor
fušä
- boil at the joint of the two parts of body
(EDG 247)
May be related.