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Mehri
səkūn - to dwell
(ML 346)
probably borrowed from Arabic
Reconstruction
PCS
*škn
- to stay, to reside
(Hasselbach–Huehnergard 2007:420; Kogan 2015: 219)
The meaning “to stay” is a passive transformation of “to place,” which is probably original for *škn in PS