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Akkadian
pīštu - insult
(CAD P 433, AHw. 869)
One wonders whether Akk. pīštu ‘insult’ may be related to PC
*pašˁ-
‘crime, transgression’ rather than derived from the somewhat ephemeral *wapāšu (AHw. 1459, CAD U-W 402).