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Hebrew
mapräḳät - neck
(HALOT 618)
Formed as a deverbal noun likely by popular etymology from the verb prḳ (pi.) ‘to tear off, out’ (HALOT 973).
Reconstruction
PWS
*pi/arḳ-at-, pi/aḳr-at-
- neck, vertebra, occiput
(SED I No. 219)
Two reconstructed stems are related metathetically; otherwise to be treated as two separate roots eventually related.