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*yawn(-at)-, *wānay- - dove
(SED II No. 252; Kogan 2011: 210)
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Ugaritic
ynt
- dove
(DUL 971)
Hebrew
yōnā
- dove
(HALOT 402)
Deir Alla
ywn
- dove
(DNWSI 453)
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
yawnā
- dove
(DJPA 237)
br ywwn ‘turtledove’ (DJPA 99)
Samaritan
ywn
- he-dove
(Tal 338)
ywnh ‘she-dove’
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
yōnā
- dove
(DJBA 531)
Syriac
yawnā
- dove
(LSyr. 300, SL 568)
Mandaic
iuna
- dove
(MD 190)
Maalula
yawna
- dove
(GNDM 60)
Turoyo
yawno
- Taube (dove)
(RW 575)
Hertevin
yona
- Taube (dove)
(Jastrow 1988: 202)
Geez
wānos, yonās
- dove
(CDG 615, 627)
The peculiar form of the Gez. term (attested also as yonās, CDG 628) may be due to contamination of the present root with the Ethiopian name of the prophet Jonah (Yonās, from Greek), cf. CDG 628 (”an interpretation of the proper name Jonah” ).
Amharic
wane
- turtledove
(AED 1541)
wānos ‘dove’ (CDG 615), wanos, wanäs ‘pigeon’ (AED 1542)