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√ŠYḪ
▪ ŠYḪ_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ŠYḪ_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ŠYḪ_3 ‘...’ ↗... ♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘to become old, advance in years, an old or elderly man’
▪ From protSem *√ŚYḪ ‘to grow, grow up, grow old’ – Huehnergard2011.
▪ …
▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl sheikh, from Ar ↗šayḫ ‘old man, chief’, from šāḫa ‘to grow old’; sheikha, from Ar šayḫaẗ, f. of šayḫ.
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