See also PWS *ḥyw ‘to live’ and Arb. ḥayyat- ‘snake’. For the semantic development “animal” > “snake” v. extensively SED II No. 159 and Kogan 2015:300.
PArm
*kpn - to be hungry
(Kogan 2005c: 560; Kogan 2011: 237)
*kV-wāt - like, as, in the manner of
(Arakelova 2001: 17)
The element *wāt is usually identified with nota accusativi yāt. However, it is noteworthy that Har. kut/kutit is very close to Aramaic forms, but can hardly be analyzed this way (Arakelova 2001:17).