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Akkadian
uplu - parasite, louse
(CAD U–W 180, AHw. 1423)
Reconstruction
PS
*pVl(y)-
- kind of insect, louse
(SED No. 175)
Clearly related is the verbal root *ply ‘to delouse’ widely attested throughout Semitic. Cf. Tna. ˁafäl ‘insects or fleas which live in grass’ (TED 1949). One wonders whether it could be directly compared to Akk. uplu (< *ˁupl-)?