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Tigrinya
faytätä - to give oneself to bad life, prostitution (of a woman) and libertinage (of a man)
(Bass. 1011)
Probably related.
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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.