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Official Aramaic
byn - between, among, in the midst of, in; during, within
(DNWSI 152)
Reconstruction
PWS
*bayna
- between
(Arakelova 2001:45, Kogan 2015: 80)
An eventual relationship between the preposition *bayna and the PWS verbal root
*byn
‘to (be) separate(d)’ (DRS 62) is not in doubt (Kogan 2015: 80)