PWS

*gawp- - chest and abdominal cavities of body/ corpse (SED I No. 100)

Hebrew

gūpā - corpse (HALOT 184)

See also pB. gūp ‘body, person, self’ (Jastrow 225)

Hatran

gwp - corpse, dead body (DNWSI 231)

Jewish Palestinian Aramaic

gwp - body (DJPA 124)

Jewish Babylonian Aramaic

gwp - to prostitute oneself (DJBA 270)

For a similar semantic shift cf. Arb. fǯr ‘to commit adultery, fornication with a woman’.

Jewish Babylonian Aramaic

gūpā - body; self; the previous subject (DJBA 270)

Arabic

ǯawf- - hollow, void space; interior of a house; belly (BK 1 357, Lane 487)

ǯīfat- ‘corpse, carrion, especially in putrefaction’ (BK 362) — < *ǯiwf(-at)-, where ī cannot be explained from Sem. *gawp-. Cf. also ǯyf ‘to exhale a fetid odor (said of a corpse)’ (BK 362).

Tigre

gof - body; interior, heart, soul (WTS 594)

Mehri

gawf - chest (ML 127)

məgəfūt ‘corpse, chest cavity of a corpse’ (ML 115).

Jibbali

mgɔffɔ́t - corpse, carcass (JL 72)

Harsusi

gawf - chest (HL 42)

megefōt ‘carrion, animal corpse’ (HL 38)