SEDonline
Semitic Etymological Database
Words
Reconstructions
About
Abbreviations
References
Geez
nafḫa, nafḥa - to blow, breathe on, inflate, sound (an instrument), blow (a horn, trumpet)
(CDG 388)
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.