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Hebrew
šwb - to return
(HALOT 1427)
Reconstruction
PCS
*ṯwb
- to return
(Kogan 2015: 202)
Has been often compared with Akk.
šâbu
‘to tremble, to sway’, but the underlying semantic connection is far from transparent. Even more uncertain is the relationship between *ṯwb and Gez.
soba
‘when’ discussed in CDG 482