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Ugaritic
yr - early rain
(DUL 977)
Reconstruction
PC
*yāriy-
- early rain
(Kogan 2015: 315)
The origin of PC *yāriy- is uncertain, but it is tempting to surmise (with DRS 621‒622) a connection with the widely attested verbal root
*rwy
‘to be saturated with water’ (for which v. HALOT 1194‒1195 and CDG 478).