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Syriac
pwḥ - to blow; to breathe; to smell
(LSyr. 559, SL 1160)
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.).