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PWS
*pḫ/ḥ - to breathe, blow, exhale (smell)
(SED I No. 54ᵥ)
Reconstructed as a biconsonantal root with various ways of triconsonantization (insertion of medial w, doubling of the second radical, etc.).
Words
Hebrew
pwḥ
- to fan, to waft through
(HALOT 916)
Hebrew
ypḥ
- (hitp.) to gasp for breath, groan
(HALOT 424)
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
pwḥ
- to breathe
(DJBA 888)
Syriac
pwḥ
- to blow; to breathe; to smell
(LSyr. 559, SL 1160)
Arabic
fḥḥ, fḫḫ
- siffler (se dit des serpents); siffler en dormant (se dit d’un homme) (to whistle (said of snakes); to whistle while sleeping (said of a man)
(BK 2 547, Lane 2348)
Arabic
fwḥ
- to exhale odour
(BK 2 644, Lane 2456)
Arabic
fwḫ
- to rise, diffuse itself (wind, odour); to make a noise (wind)
(BK 2 644, Lane 2456)
Arabic
fyḫ
- to void excrement with an emission of wind
(BK 2 652, Lane 2469)
Tigre
fǝḥot
- smell, stench
(WTS 654)