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taff‑, taf?f‑ تفّ / تففـ , ? (?)
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ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√TFː (TFF)
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vb., I
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to spit – WehrCowan1979.
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▪ Accord. to SEDV#72, the word is from Sem *TPP ‘to spit’. – Cf., however, also Eg tf ‘to spit; saliva’.
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▪ 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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▪ See above, section CONC.
▪ See also EgAr ↗taftif.
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► taffafa, vb. II, to say “phew”: denom. from tuff (?).

► tuff, n., dirt under the fingernails | ~an la-ka, interj., phew!, fie on you!
► taffāfaẗ, n.f., spittoon, cuspidor: ints.f. as n.instr.
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