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Amarna Canaanite
up-sí-ḫi - extremity
(DNWSI 97)
In EA 366:34, as a gloss to ZAG!.ḪI<.A>-ši (Rainey 1978:34‒35, 98). For a different evaluation v. van Soldt 1997, who prefers to relate up-sí- to Ugr.
ˁbs/ˁps
‘landmark, boundary’ (DUL 174)
Reconstruction
PC
*ˀaps-
- extremity
(HALOT 79, DRS 29, Kogan 2015: 283)
as suggested by HALOT 79 and DRS 29, may be borrowed from Akk.
apsû
‘cosmic subterranean water’, in its turn going back to Sum. abzu.