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Arabic
ḥḏ̣y - to be happy
(Lane 595)
Reconstruction
PWS
*ḥṯ̣ṯ̣
- to be lucky
(Kogan 2015: 327)
with a meaning shift also present in Arb.
sahm-
‘arrow; lot, portion’