is probably derived from PS
*ḥmy ‘to watch, to protect’; to be reconstructed as an active participle *ḥāmiy-(a)t- on the joint evidence of Hebrew, El-Amarna and Ugaritic data
if Arb
ḥāmiyat- ‘mass of stones with which a well is cased’ and
ḥāmiyeh - ‘courtyard’ are connected, it would push *ḥāmiy-(a)t- ‘walľ back to PCS