كفت

From Aramaic כּופְתָּא (kup̄tā, “(attested as) basket”) or another derivation of the root כ־פ־ת (k-p-t) related to twisting, binding, bending, tying over, cognate to Hebrew כּוֹפֶשׁ (kōp̄eš, “basket”) and its root כ־פ־שׁ (k-p-š), and to the Semitic-borrowed Egyptian kbs (/⁠*kup̄ṯā⁠/, “basket”), and probably cognate to the Arabic root ك ف ت (k f t) above which in place of expected *ك ف ث (k-f-ṯ) presumably got dissimilated in the manner of articulation from the second consonant and assimilated to