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▪ DRS 10 (2012)#KPʔ/P-1: Akk kapāpu, kepū, kapū ‘plier, courber’, Hbr kāpap ‘courber, incliner’, Aram kᵉpap, kᵉpā ‘incliner, courber, renverser’, Ar kafaʔa ‘renverser, retourner, détourner vers une nouvelle direction’.

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▪ DRS 10 (2012)#KPʔ/P-1: cf. also ↗KF: (KFF).
▪ Cf. also ↗KFʔ and ↗k˅fʔ ‘(to be/come) equal, alike’. An etymological relation between these items and kafaʔa ‘to turn over, reverse, invert’ cannot be excluded.
▪ There is some overlapping also with ↗KFY.
▪ For Ar kafaʔa a ‘to go away’ (cf. form VII below, section DERIV), Orel&Stolbova1994 reconstruct Sem *k˅paʔ‑ ‘to go away’ and WCh *kap‑ (loss of auslaut laryngeal), both from AfrAs *kapaʔ‑ ‘to go away’.
▪ Gabal2012 suggests a derivation of KFʔ from a biconsonantal nucleus with the basic meaning of ‘to grasp the loose part (of s.th.) and, by folding it, return it so that it is not loose/spread any more’ (qabḍ al-ṭaraf al-muntašir wa-ṯanyuh wa-radduh fa-lā yantašir), and the essential meaning of KFʔ/W is ‘to fold in order to cover the open back side of s.th.’.
▪ Ehret1995 does not mention KFʔ but derives the biconsonantal Ar ↗kaffa ‘to avert, stay; to desist, refrain’ from a pre-PSem root *KP ‘to stop, cease’

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► ʔakfaʔa, vb. IV, to turn over, reverse, invert:…
► ĭnkafaʔa, vb. VII, 1 to be turned away, be turned aside; 2 to be changed, be altered; 3 to recede, change, fade (colour); 4 to turn back, withdraw, retreat, fall back, give way; 5 to be inverted, be reversed, be turned around or over; 6 to fall down, tumble, topple: quasi-pass. or, in some values, a separate item?

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