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Hebrew
ˁbd - to work, to toil
(HALOT 773)
Reconstruction
PCS
*ˁbd
- to serve (?), to work, to make
(Huehnergard 1995: 276; Kogan 2015: 380)
The meaning “to serve” is probably the original one (cf. Huehnergard 1995:276);
A denominative verb from
*ˁabd-
rather than vice versa (Kogan 2015: 181)