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Syriac
ḳšy - to be heavy, hard
(LSyr. 703, SL 1418)
Reconstruction
PCS
*ḳšw
- to be harsh
(Kogan 2015: 192)
Cf. perhaps Tgr.
ḳäššä
‘to dry up (corn in the sun); to bear no fruit’