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Turoyo
farxo - a young one of any animal
(RW 144)
Reconstruction
PWS
*parḫ-
- chick, brood, young of a bird
(SED II No. 179)
Almost certainly connected with this this root are the MSA terms for “bastard”: Mhr.
farḫ
, Jib.
fɛrḫ
, Soq.
forḥ
, likely Arb. borrowings, cf.
farḫ
‘bastard’ in dialect of Hadramaut