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Hebrew
ḥallōn - window
(HALOT 320)
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PC
*ḥallān-
- window
(Greenfield 1969: 98, Ginsberg 1970: 103, Kogan 2015: 294)
The presence of ḥ in the Ugaritic form makes unlikely the traditional identification with *ḫll ‘to bore, to pierce’