Number: 77
Proto-Semitic: *tVpVl-
Meaning: to spit
Arabic: tfl (i, u) [BK 1 201], tafl-, tufl-, tufāl- 'crachat de salive fine' [ibid.]
Mehri: tǝfūl (yǝtfēl) [JM 400]
Jibbali: tfɔl (yɔ́tfǝl) [JJ 269]
Harsusi: tefōl
Notes: Poorly attested; the MSA forms may in principle be Arabisms. There are, however, HBR examples usually compared to this root, which probably support its common SEM origin: tāpēl 'Ungesalzenes, Fades', tpl 'albern, unsinnig reden' [KB deutsch 1634].
Cf. *tpp; may it be the source for the present root with suffixed -l?
[KB deutsch 1634]: HBR, ARB
