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Syriac
glāptā - crab shell
(LSyr. 119, SL 239)
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PS
*gVl(a)pat-
- skin; peel; scales; test
(SED I No. 80)
Scarce but reliable attestation; variant root (with g vs. ḳ) of *ḳVlVp(at) ‘scale; shell; (hard) skin; foreskin (?); peel; bark of tree’; also *gu/alb ‘(piece of) skin’