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√ṢNW
▪ ṢNW_1 ‘one of two, twin brother’ ↗ṣinw Other values, now obsolete, include (BK1860, Hava 1899):▪ †ṢNW_2 ‘ashes’: †ṣanan (det. ṣanā), ṣanāʔ; cf. also the denom. vb.s †ʔaṣnà (IV) and taṣannà (V) ‘to be stained with ashes (ṣanan) (cook) (se dit d’un homme qui fait la cuisine et se frotte contre la marmite)’ ♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘peer, equal, similar to; a full brother; two saplings growing together from the root of one tree’.
▪ [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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