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Hebrew
yrˀ - to fear
(HALOT 433)
Reconstruction
PC
*yrˀ
- to be afraid
(Kogan 2015: 315)
No immediate etymological parallel. Hypothetical cognates (DRS 483, 615‒616) involve either metathesis (Arb.
wˀr
‘to frighten’) or consonantal variation (
wrˁ
‘to fear’).