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< rapšu (?)

< Akk. rašû

Moran 1983: perhaps an old loanword from Akk. before the loss in the latter of the aleph, or perhaps both going back to a common source and the textile vocabulary of the third millennium B.C.? see also Akk sūnu

< Akk. zibibiānu

< Akk. ṣuḫāru PS *ṣγr ‘(to be) smalľ is well attested in Ugaritic in its original form. But it remains unclear why Akk. ḫ and ṣ should have shifted to γ and s (s̀) in Ugaritic. The former correspondence could probably be explained by the speaker’s awareness of the etymological relationship between ṣuḫāru and ṣγr (an etymologically motivated contamination, as in Biblical Aramaic hălāk ‘tribute, tax’ < Akkadian ilku). The latter can only be accounted for by some sort of phonetic difference between Akkadian ṣ and Ugaritic ṣ (affricate vs. non-affricate or glottalized vs. backed?). (Kogan 2015: 353)

quite uncertain (cf. Pardee 1997: 256‒257), borrowing from Akk. šukuttu ‘jewelry’ (CAD Š₃237) is hard to demonstrate.