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Syriac
parḥā - flower
(LSyr. 594, SL 1236)
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PCS
*parḫ-
- sprout, flower
(Fronzaroli 1968: 276, 290; Kogan 2011: 201; Kogan 2012: 233; Kogan 2015: 196)
PCS *parḫ- ‘sprout, blossom’ comes close to PWS
*parḫ-
‘chick, brood’, but the diachronic identity between the two sets of forms is not evident. Cf. also PWS
*piry-
‘fruit’.