v. (Ib)

tóˀo ḳéŝaˁ meṭbáḫ áˁgomk néḳheḷ be-simít wa-ṭéfoḷk ˁaf yešˁέgom ‘When the kitchen dried (after being washed), I stopped the hole with cement, and smeared (with it) so that it became blocked’ (Bulakh et al. 2021:241)

The verbal root is also used with the adjectival meaning ‘dry’.

• éḳŝaˁ to dry