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Akkadian
baltām(mu) - balsam
(SAD I)
A WS lexeme with the lateral sibilant *ŝ, appropriately rendered with the combination -lt- in the cuneiform (Jursa 2009, 156f., Kogan 2011, 78). Cf.
*bVŝVm-
‘balsam’.