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+ Eg.-syll. ha⸗ru₂ (Hoch 1994:213‒215) cf. perhaps Tna. hərät ‘ridge of mountains, mountain chain, high place, elevation, hilľ

is derived from PS *ḥdṯ ‘to be new’

The presence of ḥ in the Ugaritic form makes unlikely the traditional identification with *ḫll ‘to bore, to pierce’

is probably derived from PS *ḥmy ‘to watch, to protect’; to be reconstructed as an active participle *ḥāmiy-(a)t- on the joint evidence of Hebrew, El-Amarna and Ugaritic data if Arb ḥāmiyat- ‘mass of stones with which a well is cased’ and ḥāmiyeh - ‘courtyard’ are connected, it would push *ḥāmiy-(a)t- ‘walľ back to PCS

The origin of Ugr and Hbr verbs is disputed, v. Kreuzer 1985:39‒41 and Tropper 1990:73‒74 for the history of research. Possible etymologies: - verbs are to be parsed as Št stem forms of the root ḥwy ‘to curl, to coil,’ unattested in Canaanite but present in Arabic (ḥwy (V) ‘to assume a round or circular form, to coil, to gather itself together (a snake)’). (HALOT 295) - from ḥwy ‘to live’, proposed in Segert 1984:185 (“to ask life for oneself”) and Kreuzer 1985:54‒60 (“hoch leben lassen; huldigen, anbeten”) - Arb. ˀistaḥyā ‘to be ashamed, to be shy of somebody’, the semantic relationship between “to be ashamed” and “to humiliate oneself” being well conceivable (Kogan 2015: 295)

one wonders whether it might represent a secondary rebuilding of *kunāṯ- under the influence of *ksm rather than a completely new independent formation (Kogan 2015: 297)

is a denominative verbal root derived from *layl(iy)- ‘night’ with dissimilation of sonorants