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Mehri
hōnəd - to feel drowsy, sleepy
(ML 158)
Reconstruction
Proto-MSA
*hnd
- to be sleepy
(Kogan 2015:557)
The origin of Proto-MSA ‘to be sleepy’ is uncertain. The authors of DRS 431 are probably correct to identify it with Arb.
hnd
(II) ‘to be slow in doing, to be reluctant to do something’, Tgr.
hənəd gäˀa
‘to be lazy, amazed’ (Kogan 2015:557)