*nšm - to breathe
(SED I No. 50ᵥ; Kogan 2015: 217)
The origin is uncertain, but, as surmised already in LSyr. 451 and HALOT 730, this root cannot be separated from *nšb and *nšp, perhaps also *npš with comparable meanings (cf. SED I Nos. 47ᵥ,
49ᵥ, 51ᵥ).