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          *pšr - to tear loose, to melt
            (EDA I 452)
        
       
     
   
    
      The meanings “to interpret, to explain”, broadly attested for this root throughout WS, must be due to Akkadian influence (Wagner 1966, 96), either immediately or with various intermediaries (Akkadian > Aramaic > Arabic > MSA)