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Often claimed to mean "one", but Wilson-Wright (2014) provides evidence to suggest that it was not at all used as a cardinal numeral in Proto-Semitic but rather supplanted earlier *ʕašt- as a cardinal numeral in West Semitic languages, mostly losing its adjectival sense.
Wilson-Wright, Aren, "The Word for 'One' in Proto-Semitic", Journal of Semitic Studies 59.1 (2014) 1-13.
Huehnergard, John (2019) “Proto-Semitic”, in Huehnergard, John and Na'ama Pat-El, editors, The Semitic Languages, 2nd edition, Routledge, →ISBN, page 61