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ˀps - to be at an end, to be no more
(HALOT 79)
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.