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Hebrew
lyn - to spend the night, to stay over night
(HALOT 529)
Reconstruction
PC
*lyn
- to sleep, to stay the night
(Nöldeke 1904: 42, Kogan 2015: 297)
is a denominative verbal root derived from
*layl(iy)-
‘night’ with dissimilation of sonorants