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qdḥ - II. s’enfoncer dans l’orbite (se dit de l’oeil); amaigrir exprès (son cheval) (to sink into the orbit (said of the eye); to lose weight on purpose (of horse)
(BK 2 684, Lane 2492)
Related with a peculiar meaning shift.
Reconstruction
PS
*ḳdḥ
- to have inflammation
(SED I No. 35v)
Must be eventually derived from PS *ḳdḥ ‘to light up fire’.