▪ Aram ṣinnâ ‘basket’, which accord. to Klein1987 is the etymon of Ar ṣann, is believed by some to be orig. a *‘basket made of thorns’, cf. Hbr ṣēn ‘thorn’ (perh. related to NewSyr ṣurṣīnā ‘thistle’1
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1. Klein also mentions an Eg »ṣa-n-na ‘shaggy hair’« which I was unable to identify in any dictionary of Eg.