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Arabic
ˀby - to refuse
(Lane 12)
note the wide presence of ˀabā ‘to want’ in a variety of Arabic dialects, notably those of Southern Arabia (GD 11‒62, Behnstedt 5‒6, DRS 3)
Reconstruction
PWS
*ˀby
- to want, to desire
(Kogan 2015: 276‒277)