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Hebrew
hll - to be infatuated; to make look foolish; (po.) to make a mockery of; (hitpo.) to pretend to be mad; to act like a madman
(HALOT 249)
Reconstruction
PS
*hll
- to be imbecile, weak-minded, mad; be mocked at
(SED I No. 19ᵥ)
Originally rather a biconsonantal stem. Note various ways of triconsonantization in Eth. and a full reduplication in Arb. and Soq.