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*ḳ(ʷ)aˀ(ḳ(ʷ)aˀ)- - kind of bird
(SED II No. 126)
Not quite reliable since independent onomatopoetic formations may have been produced in concrete languages
Words
Akkadian
ḳāḳû
- a bird
(CAD Q 124; AHw. 901)
OB on
Akkadian
ḳú-ḳí-a-nu-um
- (a bird)
(VE 620)
Hebrew
ḳāˀāt
- an unclean species of bird frequenting ruins and the desert; a type of owl (?); scops owl or jackdaw
(HALOT 1059)
var. ḳāˀat; pB. ḳāˀāt (pl. ḳāˀōt) ‘pelican’ (Jastrow 1307)
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
ḳḳ
- pelican
(DJPA 501)
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
ḳāḳā
- pelican
(DJBA 1035; Jastrow 1409)
fem. ḳāḳətā
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
ḳḳwˀh
- an unclean bird
(DJBA 1035)
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
ḳwḳˀh
- a forbidden bird
(DJBA 1001)
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
ḳwḳytˀ
- a permitten bird
(DJBA 1001)
Syriac
ḳāḳā
- pelican
(LSyr. 688; PS 3708)
Amharic
ḳoḳ
- partridge (Perdrix erckelii)
(AED 761)
May be borrowed from or to Cush., v. SED II sub No. 126