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*ˀapˁaw- - kind of snake (viper?)
(SED II No. 10, DRS 29)
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Ebla
ì-pá-ù-um
- = Sum. AMA.MUŠ
(VE 034)
Identified with the present root in Civil 1984b 91.
Ugaritic
ˀapˁ
- viper
(DUL 89)
Hapax legomenon in KTU 1.19 I 13.
Hebrew
ˀäpˁǟ
- a snake
(HALOT 79)
Arabic
ˀafˁan-
- vipère (viper)
(BK 2 616, Lane 2421)
Also ˀafˁawān- ‘vipère mâle’ (ibid.).
Geez
ˀafˁot
- adder, viper
(LGz. 9, LLA 1377, Gr. 253)
Tigre
ˀafˁot
- viper
(WTS 389)
Tigrinya
ˀafˁut, ˀafˁot
- kind of very short, blackish and extremely venomous viper, adder
(TED 1551)
Amharic
ǝfuññǝt
- viper
(K 1358)
Amharic
ǝmfut
- a short-tailed, blunt-nosed viper
(K 1140)
Amharic
fuññǝt (fǝññǝt)
- viper
(K 2327)
Harari
ḥiffiñ
- viper
(EDH 80)