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ǦWF جوف
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ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ǦWF
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“root”
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▪ ǦWF_1 ‘hollow, cavity; inside, centre; abdomen’ ↗ǧawf
▪ ǦWF_2 ‘guava (fruit, brush)’ ↗ǧuwāfaẗ
▪ ǦWF_3 ‘corpse, cadaver; (hence also:) to stink’ ↗ǧīfaẗ (formally √ǦYF, but etymologically probably √ǦWF)

Other items, now obsolete:
▪ ǦWF_4 : †ǧūfī ‘(name of a species of fish)’

BAH2008: ‘belly, interior, inside; valley, to be hollow; to penetrate’
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▪ ǦWF_1: < Sem *gawp‑ ‘heart, middle, interior; body’ (Orel&Stolbova) or WSem *gawp‑ ‘hollow’ < Sem *GWP ‘hollow; to be empty’ (Dolgopolsky); perh. < AfrAs *gaw˅f‑ ‘interior’ (Orel&Stolbova). (Dolgopolsky reconstructs even Nostr *gup˅ʔ˹û˺ ‘hollow, empty; hole’).
▪ ǦWF_2: < Span < Arawakian (Antilles).
▪ ǦWF_3: Ar ǧīfaẗ ‘corpse, cadaver’ is believed to be a development from ǦWF_1 ‘hollow, cavity; inside, centre; abdomen’, cf. ↗ǧīfaẗ, ↗ǧawf.
▪ ǦWF_4 : < Aram kwfyʔ (Fraenkel1886: 123).
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