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Phoenician
ˀrw - lion
(Tomback 1978: 29, Krahmalkov 2000: 71)
Reconstruction
PNWS
*ˀarway-/*ˀaryay-
- lion
(SED II Nos. 17, 18; Kogan 2015: 236)
semantic narrowing from a more general meaning “wild beast” in PWS