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Akkadian
aḳrabu - scorpion
(CAD A₂ 207, AHw. 62)
The term is rightly thought to be a WS loan in both dictionaries. See further von Soden 1957–8: 393.
Reconstruction
PWS
*ˁaḳrab-
- scorpion
(SED II No. 31, Kogan 2011: 213)