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Ugaritic
yšn - to sleep
(DUL 988)
It is only in Ugaritic and Hebrew that yšn functions as the main verb with the meaning ‘to sleep’.
Reconstruction
PS
*wšn
- to sleep
(SED I No. 82ᵥ)
possibly derived from the nominal root
*šin-at-
‘sleep’