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Syriac
ˁwārā, ˁwīrā - blind
(LSyr. 518, SL 1086)
Reconstruction
PWS
*ˁwr
- to be blind
(SED I No. 5ᵥ; Kogan 2015: 77)
There is no trace of *ˁwr ‘to be blind’ in Akkadian; all the alleged cognates mentioned in SED I No. 5ᵥ are highly unreliable (Kogan 2015: 77)