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*lVpˀ- - fatty, fleshy tissue
(SED I No. 180; Kogan 2011: 216)
Scarcely attested; meanings rather diverse.
Words
Akkadian
lipû
- fat, tallow
(CAD L 202, AHw. 555)
Hebrew
liplūp
- glutinous substance, pus
(Jastrow 715)
A reduplicated stem with a plausible semantic shift from ‘fat’.
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
lybh
- fat, butter
(DJPA 281)
Possibly related — a variant root with b vs. p?
Arabic
lafīˀat-
- piece of flesh peeled off from the bone
(BK 2 1009, Lane 2665)