*muḫḫ- - brain, marrow (SED I No. 187; Kogan 2011: 220)

‘Brain’ is the only meaning to develop into ‘top of the head’, ‘head, skulľ, on the one hand, and ‘marrow’, on the other.

Akkadian

muḫḫu - top of the head; brain, marrow (CAD M₂ 172, AHw. 667)

Ugaritic

mḫ - top of the head, brain (WUS 181)

Hebrew

mōaḥ - bone-marrow (HALOT 567)

Jewish Palestinian Aramaic

mwḥ - skull, brain (DJPA 294)

Jewish Babylonian Aramaic

mōăḥ (mōḥā) - marrow, brain, head (Jastrow 740 )

Syriac

muḥḥā - skull; marrow, brain (LSyr. 379, SL 723)

Mandaic

muha - brain, head (MD 260 )

Arabic

muḫḫ- - brain (BK 2 1071)