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Syriac
ˀopne - wheels
(LSyr. 41, SL 19)
is certainly a Hebraism
Reconstruction
PC
*ˀVpn-
- wheel
(Kogan 2015: 283)
probably goes back to the verbal root *pny ‘to turn’ (Hbr.
pānā
), with a well-attested semantic shift (Buck 1949:724‒725) and an (admittedly unusual) ˀV-prefixation