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šwˀ - to be bad
(Kogan 2015: 122)
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Hebrew
šāwˀ/šāw
- worthless
(HALOT 1425)
Arabic
swˀ
- to be evil, bad
(Lane 1457)
Sabaic
s₁wˀ
- bad, wicked
(SD 129)
Minaean
s₁wˀ
- mal (evil)
(LM 84)
Geez
sayəˀ
- flagitium, actio turpis vel mala (bad, shameful deed)
(LLA 394, CDG 521)
Very sparsely attested, but cf. perhaps Tna. säyyäˀet ‘she became a whore’ (TED 768), apparently considered an Arabism by T. L. Kane