According to a widely accepted theory (Bauer–Leander 1927:617, DUL
650, Huehnergard 1987a:77, Krebernik 1985:54), PCS *nVš-ūma ‘women’ represents a semantic narrowing of an original meaning “people,” thought to be
preserved in Akk.
niš-ū and Ugr.
nš-m