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Akkadian
gipšu - a deformation of part of the exta
(CAD G 84, AHw. 290)
The relation to WS forms is unclear.
Reconstruction
PWS
*gbṯ
- hump (of an animal)
(SED I No. 82; Kogan 2011: 230)