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*gady- - kid
(SED II No. 76; Kogan 2011: 206; Kogan 2015: 184)
For a tentative comparison with the verbal root
*gdy
‘to cut’ v. DRS 100‒101
For a possible connection with PIE *gʰaid- v. Gamkrelidze–Ivanov 1984:872
Words
Akkadian
gadû
- kid
(CAD G 9, AHw. 273)
Late Babylonian - seems to be a borrowing from Aramaic.
Ugaritic
gd/gdy
- kid
(DUL 295)
Phoenician
gdˀ
- goat
(Tomback 1978: 63, Krahmalkov 2000: 136)
Hebrew
gədī
- kid (of goat or sheep)
(HALOT 178)
Old Aramaic
gdh
- goat
(DNWSI 213)
Official Aramaic
gdy
- kid
(DNWSI 1239)
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
gdī
- kid
(DJPA 121)
det. gdyyh
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
gadyā
- young goat, kid
(DJBA 260)
Syriac
gadyā
- kid
(LSyr. 104, SL 205)
Mandaic
gadia
- kid, young goat, Capricorn
(MD 73)
Maalula
γaḏya
- Böckchen (dwarf antelopes)
(GNDM 29)
Arabic
ǯady-
- kid
(BK 1 267, Lane 393)
Geez
gadəy
- capricorn
(CDG 183)
Borrowing from Arabic.