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Mandaic
nhp - to blow up a flame, to fan a flame, to breathe fire
(MD 291)
Related with metathesis.
Reconstruction
PS
*npḫ
- to blow, breathe, inflate
(SED I No. 45v)
Eventually derived from *pḫ/ḥ ‘to breath, blow, exhale (smell)’ (SED I No. 54v) by prefixation of *n.