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▪ A relation to the complex treated s.v. ↗buʔs ‘misery, wretchedness, suffering, distress’ seems rather unlikely. While the latter is well attested throughout Sem (and beyond), the former has hardly any cognates (unless the Gz Te words for ‘man’ are related).
▪ Although some suggestions have been made, the etymology of this semantic complex of baʔs etc. still remains rather unclear. Orel&Stolbova1994#163 reconstruct (from only Ar baʔusa) protSem *b˅ʔuš‑ ʻto be strongʼ and (from only 1 ECh evidence) protECh *basuʔ‑ ‘to be strong’ and posit a hypothetical AfrAs *baʔus‑ ʻto be strongʼ. Similarly Militarev&Stolbova2007 #893: protSem *bVʔuš‑, protECh *basuH‑ ‘to be strong’, protLEC *buHus‑ ‘to fill up’ / *bis‑ ‘all’, all from AfrAs *baʔus‑ ‘to be strong’. – For Sem, the Ar evidence should perh. (or even prob.?) be supplemented by Gz bəʔsa ‘to grow, grow mature, be strong, be swift’, though this may be denom. from Gz bəʔəsi ‘man, male, husband, person, someone’.
▪ Also, it may be worth considering the obsolete Ar ^†bāsa, yabīsu ‘to raise o.’s self above (people) and oppress them’ (Hava1899) as a development from an earlier *baʔasa, ip. *yabʔisu (as considered in a note in DRS 2) .

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▪ Leslau CDG 2006: Ar baʔusa ‘to be strong, intrepid’, Gz bəʔsa ‘to grow, grow mature, be strong, be swift’ (denom. from bəʔəsi ‘man, male, husband, person, someone’), Te bəʔəs ‘husband’.
▪ DRS 2 (1994) thinks (s.v. #BʔŠ) that the obsolete Ar ^†bāsa, ip. yabīsu ‘être hautain et injuste’ (Hava1899: ‘to raise o.’s self above people and oppress them’) is likely (»probablement«) to have developed from an earlier *baʔasa, ip. *yabʔisu.
▪ Should one also consider some of the values given (and cross-referenced with #BʔŠ) in DRS 2 (1994) #BHŚ/Š?: -1 Ar bahs ‘audace, hardiesse’, bahš ‘impétuosité’, bahaša ‘s’élancer’; -2 Ar (mérid.) bahaš ‘prendre avec une seule main’; -3 Ar bahs, bahš ‘cœur (du palmier nain)’; -4 bahaša (ʕan) ‘scruter, chercher, fureter’.
▪ Orel&Stolbova1994#163: Outside Sem: (ECh) Gabri basua ‘to be strong’.
▪ Militarev&Stolbova2007 #893: Ar bʔs [u] ‘to be strong’. – Outside Sem: (ECh) Gabri basua ‘to be strong’; (LEC) Or buusa ‘to fill up’, Konso pisá ‘all’.

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See above, section CONC.

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► ^BP#1795lā baʔsᵃ, expr., nothing bad at all!

►baʔusa, u (baʔs), vb. I, to be strong, brave, intrepid: denom.?

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