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ṯumma - then, afterwards
(Lane 351)
probably, to be analyzed as *ṯin-ma, tracing it back to the numeral
*ṯin-ā
‘two’ with a plausible semantic shift: “afterwards” < “another time, again.” (Kogan 2015: 202)