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Hebrew
hwy - to become, to lie
(HALOT 241)
The presence of hāwā in the Biblical corpus is marginal and may be partly due to Aramaic influence (Wagner 1966:45).
Reconstruction
PS
*hwy
- to be
(Kogan 2015:399)
As pointed out by J. Tropper (1993a:280), “in dieser Bed. und mit w als zweitem Radikal ausschliesslich aram.” The Hebrew form with y (hāyā, HALOT 241) is probably an innovation.