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Ugaritic
šd - open field, stretch of cultivated land; field, land, plot, estate, farm
(DUL 807)
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PC
*ŝaday-
- (cultivated) field
(Kogan 2015: 307)
The meaning “cultivated field” for *ŝadaw- is a highly specific PC innovation with no precedent in other Semitic languages, where this concept is expressed, inter alia, by the reflexes of PS
*ḥaḳl-
(Fronzaroli 1969 :8‒9, 26)