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Turoyo
ḥawyo - männliche Schlange (male snake)
(RW 214)
Not the basic word for the concept ‘snake’ in Ṭuroyo, see Barsky et. al 2018:100.
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PArm
*ḥiwy-
- snake
(Kogan 2015:394)
See also PWS *ḥyw ‘to live’ and Arb. ḥayyat- ‘snake’. For the semantic development “animal” > “snake” v. extensively SED II No. 159 and Kogan 2015:300.