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Akkadian
bazahātu - outpost
(CAD B 184, AHw. 117)
While the WS origin of this lexeme is relatively certain, its further etymological analysis is severely hampered by the orthographic ambiguity of the signs rendering the latter two radicals (Streck 2000, 85f.).