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Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
šnāṣā - lace
(DJBA 1166)
Reconstruction
PC
*šns
- to gird
(Kogan 2015: 308)
Comparison with Arb.
šnṣ
‘to be attached to something’ suggested in Yahuda 1903:711 is semantically attractive, but implies two phonological irregularities - but compare Arm forms for -ṣ