*ḫlš - to tear out (Kogan 2015: 558–559)

Contra SED I No. 33, there is no connection between this root and PS *ḫyl ‘to be in labor.’

Proto-MSA

*ḫlš - to abort (Kogan 2015: 558)

Akkadian

ḫalāšu - to scrape off (CAD Ḫ 40, AHw. 311)

Hebrew

ḥlš - to defeat (HALOT 324)

Jewish Palestinian Aramaic

ḥlš - to undress, to remove a garment (DJPA 204)

Arabic

ḫls - to seize, to carry off by force, to take hastily, to snatch away (Lane 784)

Soqotri

ḥéḷoš - strike, cause pain (LS 178; Naumkin et al. 2014a:37, 53; Kogan 2015:559)

According to our informants, rather ‘to fight’ (Kogan 2015:559 fn. 1461)