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Official Aramaic
ˀnš - man, person; people, mankind
(DNWSI 115‒121)
Reconstruction
PCS
*ˀinš-
- man, person
(Kogan 2015: 177, 382)
Loss of -n- in Hbr., Arm. and Sab. (presumably, *ˀinš->*ˀĩš->ˀīš) remains problematic in spite of the obvious presence of -n- in the Hebrew plural form ˀănāšīm (constr. ˀanšē).