conc▪ [v1] : Related to √ṮNY (↗ʔiṯnān ‘two’)? – Historically, several values are attested which evidently are related to [v1], all sharing the basic idea of *‘forming a group of two (or more: trees, mountains, people, …), resembling each other, belonging together, not standing alone’; for details see ↗ṣinw.
▪ [v2] : †ṣanan~ṣanāʔ ‘ashes’ does not seem to have cognates in Sem. Any relation with ↗ʔušnān ‘potash; saltwort’? There is the vb. V, †taṣannà ‘to be stained with ashes (ṣanan) (said of a cook who touches the cooking-pot)’, and there is †taʔaššana, vb. V, ‘to wash one’s hands with ʔušnān’…
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