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Syriac
ˁawpā - bird
(LSyr. 517, SL 1083)
Reconstruction
PWS
*ˁawp-
- bird
(SED II No. 48; Kogan 2011: 210)
It remains to be established whether the noun was derived from the verb (
*ˁwp
‘to fly’) or vice versa