Number: 2170
Proto-Semitic: *paʔw/y-at-
Meaning: genital organ
Arabic: faʔwā 'gland de la verge' [BK 2 531]
Harari: fōy 'pelvic region, lap' [LH 66]
Gurage: CHA MUH MSQ fǝyä, GYE fiyä, EZ̆A fǝyyä, ENN END GYE fiʔä 'female genital organs, clitoris' [LGur 252]
Notes: Problematic: scarce attestation only in ARB and S. ETH; meanings rather diverse.
On a possibility of interpreting HBR pōt as 'female genitals' see *pVʔ-at- 'face, front', No. .
Cf. probably related ETH: GEZ fawt 'dissolute woman' [LGz 172] (otherwise from fota, fawata 'to err, stray' [ibid.]); TGR fāytät 'prostitute' [LH 666] (<*fay-t-at, -t understood as a part of the stem, to which a second feminine suffix -at was attached?), fäytätä 'to have illicit intercourse' [ibid.]; TNA fäytätä 'darsi alla mala vida, alla prostituzione (di donna) e al libertinaggio (di uomo)' [Bass 1011].
[LH 66]: HAR, GUR
