cogn▪ MilitarevKogan2005 (SED II) #202: Akk šeleppû (šelappû, šelippû) ‘turtle; a snake’, šeleppûtu ‘she-turtle’ (from oAkk on), Ebl ša-la-pù-um, interpreted as /šalaḥpuyum/ ‘taratuga’ in Conti 1990:67 (cf. also Civil 1984b:90), Ar sulaḥfà, sulḥafà, sulaḥfāʔ, sulaḥfāẗ, sulaḥfiyaẗ ‘turtle’; Mhr salefḥōt ‘turtle’ (poss. < Ar); ? Syr slwpytʔ ‘testudo’: likely an Akkadism.
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