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Syriac
šrm - to break
(LSyr. 809, SL 1610)
With an unexpected š- instead of s-.
Reconstruction
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*ŝrm
- to cut, split, break
(SED I 324–325)
Cf. *ŝrm to have a nose with a cut-off tip; have a slit lip (SED I No. 69ᵥ).