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√DBR
▪ DBR_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ DBR_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ DBR_3 ‘...’ ↗... ♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘back, backside, buttocks, the tail end, to turn one’s back; to boycott; to plan, arrange, organise, prepare; to depart, die; root, origin’
▪ [v1] : From CSem *√¹DBR various forms meaning ‘(honey‑)bee’ – Huehnergard2011.
▪ [v2] : From WSem *√²DBR, variant (assimilated) form of protSem *√DPR ‘to turn one’s back on’ (prob. denominative from an old word for ‘back’) – Huehnergard2011.
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl Deborah, from Hbr dᵊbôrâ ‘bee’, cf. Ar ↗dabbūr.
▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl Aldebaran, from Ar al-dabarān ‘the following, follower’, from ↗dabara, vb. I, ‘to follow’.
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