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Sabaic
rfˀ - schützen (to protect)
(Stein 2010:730)
Reconstruction
PWS
*rpˀ
- to heal, to protect
(Kogan 2015: 121)
An ultimate connection with
*rpy
‘to relax’ is not to be excluded