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Syriac
yatrā - rope; bowstring; cord; beam
(LSyr. 313, SL 590)
Reconstruction
PWS
*watar-/*watr-
- tendon
(SED I No. 290; Kogan 2011: 215)
is based on Hbr. yätär, Syr. yatrā, Arb. watar-, Gez. watr, Amh. wätär (some of them with non-anatomic meanings like ‘rope’, ‘cord’, ‘bowstring’)