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Areal reconstruction
*pagr- - body, trunk
(SED I No. 209; Kogan 2011: 214)
Words
Akkadian
pagru
- body, trunk
(CAD P 12, AHw. 809)
Ugaritic
pgr
- body, corpse as a funerary offering
(DUL 655)
Hebrew
pägär
- corpse
(HALOT 911)
Old Aramaic
pgr
- body (of living person); mortal remains, dead body
(DNWSI 901)
Official Aramaic
pgr
- body (of living person); mortal remains, dead body
(DNWSI 901)
Palmyrean
pgr
- body (of living person); mortal remains, dead body
(DNWSI 901)
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
pgr
- body
(DJPA 424)
det. pgrh, pwgrh
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
pagrā
- body
(DJBA 887)
Syriac
pagrā
- body, cadaver
(LSyr. 556, SL 1156)
Mandaic
pagra
- body
(MD 359)
Arabic
fǯr
- to commit adultery, fornication with a woman
(BK 2 544, Lane 2340)
For a similar semantic shift cf. JBA
gwp
‘to prostitute oneself’.