conc▪ [v1] Kogan2015: 237: from protSem *šrḳ ‘to steal,’ broadly present outside NWSem. – In NWSem, *šrḳ has been completely ousted by protNWSem *gnb (> Hbr gnb, Syr gnb) ‘to steal’, which »is likely related to the anatomical term *ganb ‘side’, with a semantic shift from ‘to put aside’ or similar« (cf. Ar ↗ǧanb, ↗ǧānib, as well as ↗taǧannaba ‘to avoid’).
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