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Syriac
puḥdā - thigh, buttocks
(LSyr. 562, SL 1161)
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PWS
*paḫiḏ-
- hip, thigh
(SED I No. 211, Kogan 2011: 225)
On the semantic shift ‘hip, thigh’ > ‘tribal union’ see Kogan-Militarev 2003 295-296.