ܩܦܺܝܙܳܐ qpyzʾ qpizā measure
Allotropes: ܩܦܝܼܪܵܐ qpyrʾ qpirā; ܩܦܝܼܕܵܐ qpydʾ qpidā
MIr. *kapīč; cf. MP kabīz [kpyc] a grain measure, 1/10 grīw (CPD 47); Arm. LW kapič (Hübschmann AG 165, no. 303); NP kavī a measure, bushel (Steingass 1065); Gr. καπίθη (Xenophon An. 1, 5, 6) and καπέτις (Polyaen. 4, 3, 32), both from OIr. *kapīča-, see Frisk I 780. As regards the Ir. morpheme -īča- see Shaked 1985, 522 n. 46; Horn 1898, 181 f. — Talm. Aram. qpyzʾ; Md. kʾbyṣʾ, Arab. qafīz a dry measure (Telegdi 254, 124); as far as Md. kʾbyṣʾ kabīṣā (← MIr. *kapīč) Widengren 1960, 94 writes: “Die Wechselformen kapīč und *kapīz deuten auf einen parthischen Ursprung. Die mandaische Schreibung kabīṣā mit ṣ entspricht entweder der Form *kabīč < kapīč oder *kapīz” (cf. also Nöldeke MG 313; Drower – Macuch 1963, 195) ● qpyzʾ Bh Chr 199, 14; 498, 9; qpyrʾ Geop 83, 25; qpydʾ Med 143, 15 ◆ LS 682b, 686a; Lagarde GA 81, 207; Bailey 1955b, 149; Duval index pers. 224; PS Suppl. 308 considers qpydʾ as a mistake for qpyzʾ, καπίθη, a measure containing two χοίνιχες, i.e. about half a gallon