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Akkadian
baṣāṣu - to trickle
(CAD B 134, AHw. 110)
Derived words: biṣṣu ‘trickle’ (CAD B 268, 269, AHw. 130, 131, 1548); buṣāṣu ‘trifles’ (CAD B 348, AHw. 883).
Probably related to either Arb.
bḍḍ
‘to flow by little and little’ or Arb.
baṣṣa l-māˀu
= rašaḥa “to leak, to ooze (of water)” (TA 17 491).
Reconstruction
PS
*bṣ̂ṣ̂
- to trickle, to flow
(EDA I 420)