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Arabic
ǯff - agiter les ailes (se dit d'un oiseau qui couve) (to wave wings (said of a brooding bird)
(BK 1 302)
Reconstruction
PS
*gapp-, *ˀa-gapp-
- wing
(SED I No. 88)
There is a trend to compare this root with Sem. *gd/ḏp ‘to fly’ > *gadp- ‘wing’ implying a secondary formation with loss of *-d-, which is unlikely