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ḥišwat-, ḥašwat-, ḥašaⁿ - viscera (any interior part of the body); intestines
(BK 1 435)
Also maḥšaⁿ ‘stomach’ (BK 1 436); ḥašaⁿ ‘painful breathing; asthma’; ḥašiⁿ ‘painful breathing’; ḥšy ‘have asthma’ [ibid.]; semantic shifts from the unattested/lost meaning ‘lung’.
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PS
*ḥaŝy-
- entrails
(SED I No. 128)
Originally may have a more specified meaning ‘lung(s)’ (in Akk.) and ‘asthma’ (in some of the Arb. forms and in Sab.)