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Akkadian
sawû - desert, wasteland
(CAD S 202, AHw. 1033)
borrowed from CS
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PCS
*šwy
- to be equal
(Kogan 2015: 199)
possibly related are Min
s₁yy
- ‘terrace of a house’ and Qat
s₁wy
‘to do, make’