cogn▪ SEDV#72: Hbr tōp̄ät ‘spittle, expectoration’, JudAram təpap, təpē ‘to spit’, tūp ‘spittle’, Ar tff ‘to spit, Gz tafʔa ‘to spit, spit out’, Tña täfʔa, Arg täffa, əntəf ala, Har tuf bāya, Wol tuf balä ‘to spit’.
▪ ? Cf. also Ug ypṯ (< *wpṯ, inf. wpṯ-m /wuppaṯu-/) ‘to call s.o. names, scorn’, and Ar ↗NFṮ ?
▪ ErmanGrapow1921: Eg tf ‘to spit; saliva’
▪ Outside Sem, also Borg2021 #71 (t-f-f) compares Eg tf (Pyr) ‘Speichel, ausspeien (besonders mit Bezug auf die Schöpfung der Göttin Tefnut durch Atum); spucken, vomieren’; tpi͗ ‘to spew out’ (Wb V 297; Hannig 1999: 923; DLE II 207), Copt ⲧⲁϥ ‘spittle’ (Crum 1939: 453a).
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