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*ˁaṣay- - coccyx, backbone
(SED I No. 23; Kogan 2011: 218)
Vocalism tentative.
Words
Hebrew
ˁāṣē
- coccyx
(HALOT 866)
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
ˁyṣy
- backbone
(DJPA 405)
Arabic
ˁaṣaṣ-, ˁuṣuṣ-, ˁuṣˁūṣ-
- caudal bone of the tail
(BK 2 272, Lane 2057)
Related with reduplication.
Arabic
ˁaṣan
- bone of the shank
(BK 2 275, Lane 2069)
Tigre
ˁeṣat
- back (of men and animals); loin(s), waist
(WTS 491)
poet. ˁəṣet, pl. ˁawäṣṣi, ˁaṣäṣṣi