PWS

*paḫiḏ- - hip, thigh (SED I No. 211, Kogan 2011: 225)

On the semantic shift ‘hip, thigh’ > ‘tribal union’ see Kogan-Militarev 2003 295-296.

Hebrew

paḥad - thigh, haunch (HALOT 923)

Probably related. There is a tradition of translating this word as ‘testiculus’ (a discussion supporting this opinion see in [Pope 272]).

Deir Alla

phz - tribal union (DNWSI 905)

Palmyrean

pḥz - tribal union (DNWSI 905)

St. abs.: pḥz, St. constr.: pḥd.

Jewish Babylonian Aramaic

paḥdīn - testiculi (Jastrow 1151)

(pl.). A similar shift of meaning see in Akk.paḫallu ‘thigh’ vs. ‘penis’ in other Sem. (cf. *paḫiḏ- - hip, thigh No. 210) and in Akk. birku ‘knee; lap; male and female sexual parts’ [CAD b 255].

Syriac

puḥdā - thigh, buttocks (LSyr. 562, SL 1161)

Arabic

faḫiḏ- - thigh; the smallest subdivision of a tribe (Lane 2349, BK 2 552)

Also faḫḏ-, fiḫḏ-.

Sabaic

fḫḏ - thigh (SD 43)

Qatabanian

fḫḏ - clan, family, sub-tribe (LIQ 129)

Mehri

əfḫāḏ - flesh and bone of upper leg from knee to hip (ML 110)

fəḫə́ḏət ‘tribe’ (ML 110)

Jibbali

faḫḏ - flesh and bone of upper leg from knee to hip (JL 67)

fḫə́ḏət ‘tribe’ (JL 67)

Harsusi

efḫāḏ - thigh (HL 37)

Soqotri

fâḥid - people (LS 335)

An areal Arabian semantic evolution?