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Akkadian
ḫalāšu - to scrape off
(CAD Ḫ 40, AHw. 311)
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PS
*ḫlš
- to tear out
(Kogan 2015: 558–559)
Contra SED I No. 33, there is no connection between this root and PS *ḫyl ‘to be in labor.’