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Hebrew
ˀādām - mankind; individual man
(HALOT 14)
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PC
*ˀadam-
- man, person; people, mankind
(Kogan 2015: 278)
retention from PWS, but a rather specific one – note in particular the individual meaning “man, person,” unattested anywhere else in Semitic