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Arabic
γusās- - certaine maladie des chameaux (a kind of camel disease)
(BK 2 466)
May be related as a root variant with gemination.
Reconstruction
PS
*ˁaw/yš-, *ˁašw/y-
- kind of disease (fever, cold in the head; plague)
(SED I No. 27)
The Akk. variant form with ḫ- may also suggest γ-. The ESA and Jib. forms, however, clearly point to ˁ-.