▪ Huehnergard (in
AHDEL): NWSem *PRṬ ‘to break, rend’.
▪ According to Ehret1989#37, the root is an extension in‘durative intensive’ *
-ṭ from a pre-protSem 2-consonantal root nucleus *PR- ‘to cut (a piece from)’ > Ar ↗*FR-. For other extensions from the same pre-protSem *PR- see ↗
faraǧa (
farǧ) ‘to put asunder, separate, split’, ↗
farada (
furūd) ‘to be single, isolated, be unique’, ↗
faraza (
farz) ‘to separate, set apart, secrete, select’, ↗
farasa (
fars) ‘to break the neck, tear the prey into pieces’, ↗
faraša (
farš) ‘to spread on the floor, spread out’, ↗
faršaḥa, var.
faršaḫa, ‘to straddle, stand with one’s legs apart’, ↗
furṣaẗ ‘chance, auspicious moment; holiday’ (i.e., s.th. that comes like a ‘cut’ in normal life), ↗
furḍaẗ ‘notch, incision, opening’, ↗
faraʕa (
farʕ) ‘to prune a tree’, ↗
faraqa (
farq) ‘to split, separate’, ↗
farama (
farm) ‘to cut small, hash’, ↗
farà (
fary) ‘to cut, cleave, sever’; cf. also ↗
farra (
firār)
‘to flee, run away’, ↗
faṭara (
faṭr) ‘to split, cleave, break apart’, (
fuṭūr) ‘to break the fast’.