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Mandaic
binat, binia, bit, abinia - between, betwixt
(MD 61)
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)