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PWS
*bdˀ - to lie
(DRS 44; Kogan 2015: 550)
Lower-level reconstructions
Proto-MSA
*bdy
- to lie
(Kogan 2015:550)
Areal reconstruction
*bdˀ
- to make for the first time, to begin
(Kogan 2015:550)
Words
Hebrew
bdˀ
- to invent, to devise
(HALOT 109)
Official Aramaic
bdˀ
- to devise falsehood
(DNWSI 144)
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
bdˀ
- to invent
(DJPA 85)
Syriac
bdy
- to speak falsely, devise; to fabricate
(LSyr. 59, SL 119)
Zway
(a)buǯī
- to cheat, to deceive
(EDG 134)