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Amarna Canaanite
pamaḫâ - (a soldier)
(CAD P 76)
The Amarna form renders Egyptian pꜣ mhr “the warrior”, whose former element is the New Egyptian definite article and latter, a West Semitic word derived from
*mhr
‘to be smart, capable, able’ (Hoch 1994:147–149).