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▪ DRS 2 (1994) #BʔR- 1 protSem *bi/uʔr- ‘puits, citerne’: Akk būr-, būrt-, Pun bɛʔr (pl. bhrm ?), Moab br, Hbr bᵊʔēr, bōr, oAram byrʔ, EmpAram bʔr, Nab bʔrwt (pl.), JP bī[ʔ]rā, bᵊʔērā, bērā, Syr be[ʔ]rā, Mnd bira, abira, nSyr birä, Ar biʔr, buʔraẗ, EpigSAr bʔr, Soq ʕébehor ‘puits’; Gz barbir, oHar buʔurya, TalmAram bōrā, nSyr bāra ‘fossé’; Ar biʔraẗ, buʔraẗ, baʔīraẗ ‘trésor, dépôt’; SAr brt ‘tombe’; Har buʔur, bur ‘profond’; ? Akk bērūt-, bīrūt‑ ‘souterrain’. -2 Akk bāru ‘paraître sûr, prouvé’; Hbr bēʔēr, JP bᵊʔar, bāʔēr ‘expliquer, rendre clair’. -3 Akk būr- ‘jeune taureau’, būrt-, būšt- ‘vache’; Ug bʔur (?) ‘jeune taureau’(?). -4 Akk baʔāru, bāru ‘saisir, prendre (au filet, etc.)’; Mhr Śḥr (réfléchi) biter, Soq bɛr ‘pêcher’. -5 Akk bāru ‘se soulever, provoquer une révolte’. -6 DaṯAr baʔar ‘roter’. –
▪ Outside Sem, Borg2021 #22 (b-ʔ-r) compares Ar biʔr ‘well’ to Eg bjꜣw (OK) ‘Grube, Bergwerk, Steinbruch / mining region, mine’ (Wb I 438; Faulkner 1962: 80; Ember 1913: 112; Calice 1936: 60), ~ biʔru, pl biʔrōtu (nominal component in toponym) ‘well’ (Hoch 1994: 91)
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl Beersheba, from Hbr bᵊʔēr šebaʕ ‘well of oath’, from bᵊʔēr ‘well’ (šebaʕ ‘oath’; see Ar ↗SBʕ). – Beirut, from Ar bayrūt, from Phoen *biʔrōt, pl. of *biʔr ‘well’.

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