hardly any connection between this root and PWS *ḳṣp ‘to break’ or Akk. kaṣāpu ‘to account?, to wish?, to plan?’. Cf. perhaps Arb raˁdun qāṣifun - šadīdu ṣ-ṣawti
evidently derived from PS *nḳb ‘to tear, to pierce, to bore,’ underlying semantic shift refers either to defloration or to the shape of the female genital organs
PNWS
*nḥm - to console
(Hasselbach–Huehnergard 2007:420; Kogan 2015: 220)
PNWS
*pšṭ - to spread, to stretch; to strip off, to separate
(EDA I)
May be related to Arb. bsṭ ‘to spread, to expand with an irregular mutation of labials in Arb. (Kogan 2015:477).