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√NSR
small piece, chip, splint – WehrCowan1979.
▪ From ↗nasr~nisr ‘eagle, vulture’, orig. prob. *‘piece of flesh that an eagle tears out of its prey with its beak’.
►tanassara, vb. V, 1 to get torn; 2 to break, snap: Dt-stem, quasi-pass. (1), intr. (2), orig. likened to an eagle’s plucking pieces of flesh from its prey with its beak.▪ For other items of the same root, cf. ↗nasr~nisr, ↗minsar, ↗mansar, ↗nisrīn, and ↗nāsūr, as well as, for the general picture, ↗√NSR.
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