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Ugaritic
tbṯḫ - bed
(DUL 859, Watson 2007: 109)
borrowing from Akk. tapšaḫu is quite difficult if only for the fact that the Akkadian lexeme, hapax legomenon in a late bilingual text (CAD T 194), does not designate a concrete object (“a bed”), but rather “a resting place” or similar.