PWS

*ḫiṣr- - little finger (SED I No. 134, Kogan 2011: 224)

Connected or contaminated with Sem. *ḫṣr ‘to be short’ (on this root see e. g. [CDG 267]). Cf. a metathetic variant root probably related to the MSA forms.

Hebrew
*ḥāṣēr - lobe of the liver (Jastrow 496)
pB., in ḥăṣar ha-kkābēd
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
ḥa/iṣrā - lobe of the liver (Jastrow 496)
in ḥa/iṣrā də-ˁal kabdā
Syriac
ḥeṣrā - a little finger (LSyr. 252, SL 485)
Mandaic
hiṣra - little finger (MD 147)
Arabic
ḫinṣir- - little finger (BK 1 640, Lane 817)
Mehri
ḫɔṣ̌ərrɔ́ˀ - little finger (SSL 2 242)
Jibbali
ḫəṣrér - little finger (JL 527)