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Akkadian
buddudu - to waste, to squander
(CAD B 303, AHw 95, 1549)
As argued by von Soden (AHw 95, von Soden 1947:444) and Landsberger 1965:57, the Akkadian verb is semantically well compatible with PWS
*bdd
‘to divide, to separate’.