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Akkadian
niālu - to lie down
(CAD N₁ 204, AHw. 784)
Cf. itūlu ‘to lie down, to sleep’ (CAD U/W 344), Gt of niālu (Huehnergard 2002a:178-184).
Derived from *layliy- with dissimilation (Kogan 2015: 297 n. 844).
Reconstruction
PS
*layliy(-at)-
- night
(CDG 314, Fronzaroli 1965a: 141, 147, 150; Kogan 2011: 196; Kogan 2015: 33)