səlä - because of, regarding, on account of, concerning, about, with regard to, in consideration of; for the sake of, on behalf of; similar to, like, equal or comparable to; instead of (AED 442)

The reconstruction is not entirely certain. Akk. iš is only attested in a specific group of texts (the archaic liver models from Mari); moreover, it is sometimes considered to be an equivalent of the terminative marker -iš. Throughout EthS this preposition can only be distinguished as a part of other prepositions, for which one may also suppose other ways of division. See Arakelova 2001:29–30.