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Akkadian
penušḫu - (a vessel)
(CAD P 326, AHw. 854)
Or panušḫu. From Hurrian pen(i)-o/u-šḫe, going back to pe/in- ‘to measure’ (BGH 310f.) with the suffix -šḫe forming names of objects (Giorgieri 2000:209, Wegner 2007:57).