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*na/iṣ(ṣ)- - kind of a bird
(SED II No. 168)
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Akkadian
naṣnaṣu
- a bird
(CAD N₂ 49, AHw 757)
Ugaritic
nṣ
- bird, wild bird (perhaps a raptor, esp. 'hawk, falcon')
(DUL 646)
Phoenician
nṣ
- hawk
(Tomback 1978 219)
Attested only in the toponym ˀy nṣm ‘the Island of Hawks’ (cf. Krahmalkov 2000 48)
Hebrew
nēṣ
- falcon
(HALOT 714)
nōṣā ‘falcon’ HALOT 715. post-Biblical ‘hawk’ (Jastrow 927)
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
br nṣṣh
- falcon
(DJPA 100)
Samaritan
nṣ
- a bird
(DSA 545)
nṣ, nṣṣ
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
nṣˀ
- falcon
(DJBA 771)
Syriac
neṣṣā
- hawk
(LSyr. 442, SL 938)
Arabic
naṣṣat-
- female sparrow
(BK 2 1267)