te - 1. to eat; 2. to enjoy, to consume (wealth) (LS 440; CSOL I 679; CSOL II 613; Naumkin et al. 2015a:89; Bulakh 2024:221)

Proto-MSA

*twy - to eat (Kogan 2015: 31)

With no evident Semitic etymology (for the rather sparse Akkadian comparanda see Kogan 2015:539).