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Ugaritic
nnˀu - a medicinal plant
(DUL 633)
a connection with Akk.
nīnû
is likely, but as Watson himself admits (2007:70), there is no need to postulate an Akkadian loanword in Ugaritic (cf. Pardee 1985:60 for related terms in other Semitic languages) (Kogan 2015: 365)