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Syriac
škḥ - to meet, to come upon, find
(LSyr. 775, SL 1556)
Reconstruction
PCS
*škḥ
- to find
(Kogan 2015: 330)
A connection with Hbr.
škḥ
‘to forget’ is traditionally supposed, but the direction of the semantic shift is not entirely clear.