Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/napaḫ-

This Proto-Semitic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Compare with Egyptian nfj.

*napaḫ-

1. to blow

• East Semitic:
  • Akkadian: 𒃸𒃸 (napāḫum, “to blow”)
• West Semitic:
  • Central Semitic:
    • Arabic: نَفَخَ (nafaḵa, “to blow”)
      • Maltese: nefaħ
    • Northwest Semitic:
      • Aramaic: נָפַח (nāp̄aḥ, “to blow”), נְפַח (nəp̄aḥ, “to blow”).
        • Classical Syriac: ܢܦܰܚ (nəp̄aḥ, “to blow”)
        • Kurdish:

          → Northern Kurdish: nepixîn (“to swell up, be puffed up”), nepixandin (“tto cause to swell, blow, puff up”)

      • Canaanite:
        • Hebrew: נָפַח (nafákh, nāp̄aḥ, “to blow”)
  • Ethiopian Semitic:
    • Amharic: ነፋ (näffa)
    • Ge'ez: ነፍኀ (näfḫä), ነፍሐ (näfḥä, “to blow”)
    • Sebat Bet Gurage: ነፋ (näfa, “to blow”)
    • Tigre: ነፍሓ (näfḥa, “to blow”)
    • Tigrinya: ነፍሔ (näfḥe, “to blow”)
  • Modern South Arabian:
    • Harsusi: nefōḥ (“to blow”)
    • Mehri: nefḥ (“to blow”)
    • Shehri: nifḥ (“to blow”)
    • Soqotri: náfaḥ (“to blow”)

• “npḥ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–