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fwḫ - to rise, diffuse itself (wind, odour); to make a noise (wind)
(BK 2 644, Lane 2456)
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.).