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Akkadian
ḳuddušu - to make ritually clean, to purify
(CAD Q 46; AHw. 891)
cf. ḳašdu ‘holy’ (CAD Q 146; AHw. 906); ḳadištu ‘a woman of special status’ (CAD Q 48; AHw. 891)
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*ḳdš
- sacred
(HALOT 1066)