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Mehri
ḥəfūḏ̣ - to keep safe, to preserve, to look after
(ML 168)
probably borrowed from Arabic
Reconstruction
PCS
*ḥpṯ̣
- ‘to be attentive, to care
(Kogan 2015: 210)
see also the noun
*ḥipṯ̣