gʷäfla - skin of a dead calf which is stuffed with straw and placed beside the cow during milking so that she will continue to let down milk
(AED 2073)
Areal reconstruction
*gʷafl-/*gVfn- - stuffed skin given in place of her young one to a bereaved mother-animal
(EDG 266, DRS 170, Kogan 2015: 554)
MSA + Southern EthS. The ultimate origin of this peculiar areal isogloss is obscure.
Any connection with Arb. ǯafn- ‘scabbard, sheath’? (Kogan 2015: 554)