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The verb, etymologically identical with bâˀu “to go along”, is, however, attested in Mari with a different thematic vowel (ū vs. ā) and displays a different meaning (“to come” vs. “to pass, to go along”). The cumulative evidence of the vowel, the meaning and the dialectal distribution makes it almost certain that these examples should be interpreted as attestations of the WS root *bwˀ “to come”.

While the WS origin of this lexeme is relatively certain, its further etymological analysis is severely hampered by the orthographic ambiguity of the signs rendering the latter two radicals (Streck 2000, 85f.).

Derived words: baziˀtu 'claim' (CAD B 185).
No definitive etymology can be suggested.

Or baziˀītu.
Probably of foreign origin. An Egyptian etymology is surmised by Kogan (apud Arkhipov 2018, 168, fn. 5).

Or basku etc.
Perhaps an onomatopoeic word imitating the characteristic sound produced by ducks.

May be connected to PWS *bdˀ 'to lie'. Also note Arb. bdˁ IV 'to innovate, to produce newly, for the first time' in view of the e-vocalism of the Akkadian verb. 

Or bet/ṭû.
No etymology can be suggested. In the wake of Mayer 2016, 196f., this verb is separated here from bedû “to cheat(?)”.

The verb is generally regarded as a direct loanword from Aramaic (von Soden 1966:7, Abraham; Sokoloff 2011:28). Alternatively (with Beaulieu 2013:372), beḫēru could be seen as a variant of Akk. baˀāru “to select” that arose under the influence of the semantically and etymologically identical Aramaic root b-ḥ-r.