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Amharic
ḳäṭṭäfä - to pick (flowers, leaves, fruit), to pluck (ears of grain)
(AED 841)
Reconstruction
PS
*ḳṭp
- to pluck off
(Kogan 2015: 587 n.1527)
maybe also Mhr
ḳəṭfīf
and Jib
ḳaṭf
‘feather’ are connected