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Hebrew
ˀaddīr - mighty, magnificent
(HALOT 13‒14)
Reconstruction
PC
*ˀdr
- to be great, strong, magnificent
(Kogan 2015: 280)
Cf. perhaps Tna.
ˀaddärä
‘to heap up, to amass, to collect’ (TED 1530), which would point to PWS *ˀdr ‘to be massive.’ In DRS 10, PC *ˀdr is compared to Arb.
ˀudrat-
‘scrotal hernia’