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Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
gwp - to prostitute oneself
(DJBA 270)
For a similar semantic shift cf. Arb.
fǯr
‘to commit adultery, fornication with a woman’.
Reconstruction
PWS
*gawp-
- chest and abdominal cavities of body/ corpse
(SED I No. 100)