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Hebrew
kussämät - spelt, emmer wheat
(HALOT 490)
Reconstruction
PC
*kussam-t-
- spelt (grain similar to wheat)
(Kogan 2015: 296)
one wonders whether it might represent a secondary rebuilding of
*kunāṯ-
under the influence of
*ksm
rather than a completely new independent formation (Kogan 2015: 297)