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Arabic
ḫls - to seize, to carry off by force, to take hastily, to snatch away
(Lane 784)
Reconstruction
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.’