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Tigre
faytät - prostitute
(WTS 666)
Probably related. < *fay-t-at-, the first -t- understood as part of the stem to which a second feminine suffix -at was attached ?. Cp. also faytata ‘to have illicit intercourse’ (WTS 666).
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PWS
*pVˀw/y(-at)-
- genital organ
(SED I No. 206)
Problematic: scarce attestation only in Arb. and Eth.; meanings rather diverse.