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Arabic
šzr - to twist the rope, or cord, from the left
(BK 1 1225, Lane 1546)
Reconstruction
PWS
*šV(n)zVr-, ŝV(n)zVr-
- span
(SED I No. 251)
A very complicated case. Attested with the meaning ‘span’ in Eth. and MSA only.