Directly comparable to Mhr. ewdīd ‘to assign tasks’, Jib. ebdéd ‘to assign tasks’, probably Sab. (minuscule) h-wdd ‘to entrust’. The semantic relationship “to send” – “(to assign) a task” is copiously attested, cf. Akk. šipru, Hbr. melā(ˀ)kā, Lat. missio. A more remote connection may be seen in Gez. wadda ‘to put into, to join together, to insert’, all eventually from PS *wdd ‘to love’ (= ‘to be attached to each other, to stay together’).

• Mhr. əwdīd to assign tasks
• Jib. ebdéd to assign tasks