Cf. SOQ ʔamt 'coté' [LS 65], 'tout le côté du corps (demi-corps)' [SSL LS 1450], semantically problematic; Leslau [LGz 26] quotes SOQ ʔemeh as 'cubit' unattested, however, either in [LS] or other sources available.
Arabic:wsn 'être endormi d'un profond sommeil; être dans son premier somme; sommeiller' [BK 1 1538], sinat-, wasnat-, wasanat- 'envie de dormir, somnolence; sommeil profond; premier somme', wasan- 'sommeil profond' [ibid. 1539]
Epigraphic South Arabian:SAB s1nt 'sleep' [SD 163]
Mehri:šǝnēt 'sleep (n.)' [JM 432]
Jibbali:s̃ónút 'sleep' [JJ 293]
Harsusi:šenēt 'sleep' [JH 124]
Soqotri:šínoh 'heure de la nuit' [LS 419]; míšin 'lieu où l'on dort' [LS 252]
Notes:The verb attested only in UGR, HBR and ARB may be as well a secondary denominal formation from *šin-at- {} *sin-at- 'sleep' occuring in all SEM except ETH.
Note, however, GEZ ʔaswana 'to yawn, gape' [LGz 520], with a possible meaning shift (united by Leslau with ʔaswana 'to cause to separate, make dissolve, make urinate' with no obvious semantic connections).
Meaning:to be mad, talk without sense; produce incoherent sounds (in one's sleep)
Akkadian:azû (h_azû, asû) 'to produce unnatural sounds' OB on [CAD a2 528], [AHw 92] (translated as 'seufzen, jappen')
Hebrew:hāzā 'to pant in its sleep (dog)' [KB 243].
Hapax in Is 56:10
Syrian Aramaic:hdy [PS 1:973] (not in Brock)
Arabic:hd_w 'battre la campagne, dire des absurdités' [BK 2 1408], hud_āʔ- 'délire' [ibid.]
Gurage:ENN ažažät 'one who acts mad' [LGur 123]; EZ̆A MUH MSQ SOD zazza, CHA ENN GYT zasa, END zassaʔa 'to act mad, act crazily, talk nonsense' [ibid.].
With haplology of the initial vowel <*hV-, and -z-> -s- in part of the examples due to dissimilation?
Mehri:hǝd_ (rare) 'to talk too much, to buzz (hornet)' [JM 153]
Jibbali:héd_é 'to be delirious, talk without sense, talk in one's sleep' [JJ 95].
Cf. hɛzzún 'mindlessly violent, psychopathic' [ibid. 100] (a variant root)
Notes:Meanings very diverse making a reconstructed semantics somewhat obscure. The GUR examples probably represent a reduplicated stem *zaza <*hazaza, with a haplology of the initial vowel <*hV- (retained, however, in ENN ažažät) and -z-> -s- in part of the examples to be explained (dissimilation?); note a somewhat strange coincidence of unexpected -s- in some of GUR and AKK asû.
