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Akkadian
ḫilpu - milk
(CAD Ḫ 187, AHw. 345)
Aramaic loanword (Abraham–Sokoloff 2011:33), Akk semantic equivalent is
šizbu
‘milk’, with no reliable etymology.
Reconstruction
PWS
*ḥalab-
- milk
(Fronzaroli 1971: 613; Fronzaroli 1969: 19, 30, 35; Kogan 2011: 240)