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ˁora - to be blind
(CDG 79)
Note also ˀanˁorara ‘become blind’ (with ˀan- prefixed and a partial reduplication; on this formation in Eth. see [Conti Bilitterismo 73-93]) and ˁǝrǝrt ‘kind of eye-desease’ [ibid. 71].
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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)