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Akkadian
bâtu - to stay overnight, spend the night; to delay
(CAD B 169; AHw 124)
biātu, biādu
Reconstruction
PS
*byt
- to spend the night
(CDG 116; DUL 244)
probably denominative from
*bayt-
- ‘house’