connection with Akk. kamālu is probably to be rejected (Pardee 2000: 627) (Kogan 2015: 363)
As reasonably surmised in HALOT 1109, it is to this root that the Ugaritic verb ḳmṣ ‘to curl up, to bend’ likely belongs. This comparison invalidates Watson’s conclusion that Ugr. ḳmṣ is borrowed from Akkadian (Watson 2007:101).