Proto-MSA
*pḳy - to cover, to wear clothes
(Kogan 2015:567)
The origin of Proto-MSA *pḳy ‘to cover, to wear clothes’ is unknown. One cannot exclude that this root once replaced PS *lbš ‘to wear,’ which was re-established as lbs in Mehri and Jibbali (ML 251, JL 159) via borrowing from Arabic. (Kogan 2015:567)