"...mašlû is a skin used for wrapping ... rather than a bucket..." [CAD m1 380]. Both sources refer to the verb šalû 'to submerge oneself' [CAD š1 273], 'eintauschen' [AHw 1152] implying its connection with the meaning 'bucket'; the comparative data, however, rather point to the underlying meaning 'skin'. Cf. also šah_i(l)lu 'Eimer' LB [AHw 1132] (transcribed as šāh_ilu and translated as 'strainer, filter' in [CAD š1 96]); it is not clear whether this term has anything to do with 'skin' or 'skin bucket' and could be compared with metathesis

    Probably C. SEM only. In AKK, *-h_ (implied by the ARB examples) is expected to be preserved (though reflexation of SEM laryngeals in AKK is not yet studied sufficiently, see Introduction). This and a derived pattern (see, however, one of the SYR and ARB forms below) make the AKK comparison questionable.

    Note a likely derived verb in ARM: JUD šlḥ (pa) 'to strip, undress' [Ja 1580], šlḥ 'to strip off clothes, shed skin' [Sok 552], MND S̆LA 'to take off, to undress' [DM 466] (also S̆HL 'to undress, denude, take off' [ibid. 451] and S̆LH 'to draw off' [ibid. 467]). Cf. ARB šlḥ 'dépouiller, ôter les habits à qn.' [BK 1 1263], with š- instead of the expected s- (secondary "lateralization" of *s- near -l-?) and -ḥ, not *-h_