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Sabaic
ˁḳb - to act as military chief, deputy, fortress
(SD 17)
Likely derived from this nominal root with the meaning shift from ‘to protect, be a protector’.
Reconstruction
PS
*ˁaḳib-, *ˁiḳb-
- heel
(SED I No. 14)