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Syriac
gnab - to steal, to hide
(LSyr. 124, SL 243)
Reconstruction
PNWS
*gnb
- to steal
(Kogan 2015:237)
likely related to the anatomical term
*ganb-
‘side’, with a semantic shift from “to put aside” or similar (cf. Kopf 1976:192)