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Uncertain; possibly Semitic or Hurrian. Compare κόφος(kóphos, “basket-load”) and Arabicقُفَّة(quffa, “large wicker-basket”) and Arabicقَفِيز(qafīz, “a dry measure”) for a picture of the frequency of container names with guttural onset leading over an open vowel to a labial plosive or fricative.
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN