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Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
gappā - wing; winged animal
(Jastrow 262, DJBA 297a)
gp ‘wing’ [Sok. 134]
Reconstruction
PS
*gapp-, *ˀa-gapp-
- wing
(SED I No. 88)
There is a trend to compare this root with Sem. *gd/ḏp ‘to fly’ > *gadp- ‘wing’ implying a secondary formation with loss of *-d-, which is unlikely