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Mandaic
hlm - (ethpa.) to be healthy, to recover health, to be cured
(MD 149)
Reconstruction
PCS
*ḥlm
- to become healthy, mature
(SED I 291)
Probably a semantic development ‘to become healthy, mature’ < ‘to attain puberty’ < ‘to have nocturnal ejaculations’?