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Proto-MSA
*pḳy - to cover, to wear clothes
(Kogan 2015:567)
The origin of Proto-MSA *pḳy ‘to cover, to wear clothes’ is unknown. One cannot exclude that this root once replaced PS *lbš ‘to wear,’ which was re-established as lbs in Mehri and Jibbali (ML 251, JL 159) via borrowing from Arabic. (Kogan 2015:567)
Words
Mehri
fḳō
- to cover
(ML 92)
Jibbali
féḳé
- to wear (clothes)
(JL 56)
Soqotri
fíḳha
- cloth, garment
(
LS
340;
CSOL I
534;
CSOL II
455)