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Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
birkā - knee
(DJBA 206)
Reconstruction
PS
*bi/ark-
- knee
(SED I No. 39)
Cf. *rVk(u)b(at) ‘knee’ (No. 232) and discussion in [GD 163], where separation of these two roots is also favored.