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Sabaic
ḳdm(y) - before
(SD 104)
Reconstruction
PS
*ḳVdm
- in front of, before
(Arakelova 2001:46, Kogan 2015:395)
The preposition is considered to be derived from the verbal root
*ḳdm
‘to be in front, to precede’