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Hebrew
ypḥ - (hitp.) to gasp for breath, groan
(HALOT 424)
Reconstruction
PWS
*pḫ/ḥ
- to breathe, blow, exhale (smell)
(SED I No. 54ᵥ)
Reconstructed as a biconsonantal root with various ways of triconsonantization (insertion of medial w, doubling of the second radical, etc.).