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*ḥVsVn- - a kind of harmful insect
(SED II No. 105; Kogan 2011: 213)
Level? For Akk. šuḫsilu ‘a locust’ and Soq. di ḥʌ́ṣəḥʌn see SED II 145.
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Ugaritic
ḥsn
- grasshoppers
(DUL 373)
Hebrew
ḥāsīl
- certain stage in the life cycle of locust, or cockroach
(HALOT 337)
is likely related. See Huehnergard 1999: 90; Kogan 2011: 213
Geez
ḥasen
- butterfly
(CDG 245, LLA 93)
Tigrinya
ḥasän
- winged ant-lion
(TED 206)
Amharic
ašän, ašen
- termites which have wings and leave the nest at the onset of the rainy season; small locusts
(AED 1181)