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PS
*tVrr- - kind of bird
(SED II No. 229)
The PS reconstruction is not fully reliable since some of the supposed cognates can be analyzed as non-Semitic loanwords: Akk. tarru < Sum. DAR (so Salonen 1973 151, AHw. 1331), Syr. tar < Persian tar (so LSyr. 833).
Words
Akkadian
tarru
- a bird
(CAD T 241, AHw. 1331)
Ugaritic
tr
- turtledove
(DUL 876)
Hebrew
tōr
- turtle-dove
(HALOT 1709)
Samaritan
tr
- turtle-dove
(DSA 961)
Likely a Hebraism
Syriac
trr
- swallow
(LSyr. 833, SL 1663)