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*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.
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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)