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▪ According to DRS, the notion of ‘corpse, cadaver’ is secondary, the primary meaning of the root being ‘hollow, cavity’ (hence ‘interior of the body, body’ > ‘dead body, corpse’).
▪ Dolgopolsky2002#650 assumes a WSem *gīp‑ ~ *gūp‑ ‘body’, but also WSem *gawp‑ ‘hollow’ (< Sem *GWP ‘hollow; to be empty’), to which the former is related, see ↗ǦWF, ↗ǧawf.

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▪ DRS 2 (1994) regards the value ‘corpse, cadaver’ as the result of a development ‘hollow, cavity’ > ‘interior of the body, body’ > ‘dead body, corpse’¹ and accordingly groups it as follows: #GWP-1 Hbr *gūpā ‘cadavre’, *gap dans be -gappō ‘avec son corps = seul’; nHbr gūp, EmpAram gp, Ḥat gwph ‘dépouille (?)’, JP gūpā ‘corps, personne’, Ar ǧawf ‘creux, ventre, poitrine, entraille, cœur’, ǧīfaẗ ‘cadavre’; Te gof ‘intérieur du corps, cœur, âme’.²
▪ Dolgopolsky2002#650: Nostr *gæ˹ʔ˺Up˅ ‘body’ > AfrAs: WSem *gūp- ~ *gīp- ‘body’ BiblHbr *gūp̄āh ‘corpse’ (st.constr. gūp̄aṯ, pl. gūp̄ōṯ), JA mHbr gūp̄ ‘body’ (JA kem. gūp̄ā), JEA gūp̄ā ‘body, self’, Htr gwp ‘person’ (or ‘corpse, dead body’), Ar ǧīf-at- ‘corpse’, Jib C mgɔffɔt, Jib E mɜgɜfɔt ‘corpse, carcass’ (all connect the root with WS *gawp- ‘hollow’. – Outside Sem: [Turk] oTu k|gövdöŋ (NişanyanSözlük_17Mar2015 kövtöŋ), Tkm göwde ‘corpse, torso, trunk of a body’, Uz gavda ‘id.’, Tu gövde ‘trunk of a body\tree’.

1. »La notion de base est celle de ‘creux’ d’où ‘intérieur du corps, corps’.« 2. Hbr < Aram; Te < Ar.

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▪ Dolgopolsky2002#650 reconstructs WSem *gīp- ~ *gūp- ‘body’ (connected with WSem *gawp- ‘hollow’, cf. Ar ↗ǧawf) and, outside Sem, Turk *k˺|k_æbdæ(ŋ) ‘body, trunk of a body, corpse’ < Alt *k˺æp˹a˺- ‘body, trunk of a body’. For both, the author assumes an origin in Nostr *gæ˹ʔ˺Up˅ ‘body’.

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► ǧāfa i, vb. I, ǧawwafa, vb. II, and taǧawwafa, vb. V, to be putrid, stink (decaying cadaver) : denom.

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