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Tigrinya
näfḥē - soffiare per gonfiare otre, suonare la tromba (to blow in order to inflate, to play a trumpet)
(TED 1395, Bassano 1918: 469)
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*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.