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Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
pty - to spread, to be broad
(DJBA 947)
putyā ‘width, breadth’ is unlikely to be an Akkadian borrowing from pūtu ‘forehead’. It is a derivation from the autochtonous verbal root (EDA I 74)
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PNWS
*pty
- to spread, to be broad
(EDA I 74)