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Syriac
ḥenkā, ḥekkā, ḥunkā - palate
(LSyr. 244)
-u- in ḥunkā remains unexplained.
Reconstruction
PWS
*ḥVnVk-, *ḥink-
- palate
(SED I No. 124; Kogan 2015: 84)