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fry - to slit, to cut
(Lane 2391)
Possibly related to Akk.
parāˀu
‘to slice, to slit’. This is a good match from the semantic point of view, but the word-final “strong aleph” in Akkadian is unlikely to correspond to -y in Arabic (EDA I 226)