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PS
*ˁu/irray(-at)- - intestines; excrement
(SED I No. 22, DRS 636)
Scarcely but reliably attested. Phonetic reconstruction highly tentative.
Words
Akkadian
erru
- Darm
(AHw. 244)
Pl. ‘Eingeweide’ (ibid.).
Akkadian
irrū (wirrū)
- intestines, gut
(CAD I 181)
The form in w- makes the relationship with PS *ˁu/irray(-at)- ‘intestines’ somewhat problematic (cf. DRS 636).
Arabic
ˁurr-, ˁurrat-
- dung of solid-hoofed animals and birds; human excrement
(BK 2 205, Lane 1990)
Soqotri
ˁeríyeʰ
- disease of intestines (said of livestock)
(LS 327)