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Akkadian
zanānu - to rain
(CAD Z 41, AHw. 1509)
Cf. zunnu ‘rain’ (AHw. 1537).
Reconstruction
PS
*ḏVnVm-/ḏVnVn-
- rain
(DRS 336; Kogan 2011: 193–194)
Probably *ḏnn is the original shape of the root dissimilated in EthS and Sab, but the reverse possibility (an original *ḏnm assimilated to znn in Akkadian) cannot be excluded either (cf. DRS 336) (Kogan 2015: 442-443)