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Arabic
siff- - serpent; kind of snake with black and white spots
(BK 1 1096, Lane 1368, LA IX 154)
Var. suff-
Reconstruction
PS
*šVpp-
- kind of snake, worm, insect larvae
(SED II No. 207)
Phonetically and semantically close forms with -b- are united into a separate root *šibb- ‘kind of snake, worm’, SED II No. 200.