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Tigre
fərnəg - quail
(WTS 658)
Var. fənrəg. A number of Ethiopian forms quoted in WTS (Gez. dərnəḳ, Tna. bərniggo) exhibit a certain similarity to Tgr. fərnəg but their genetic relationship to the present root is difficult to prove.
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PS
*parg-
- kind of bird (hen, quail)
(SED No. 178)
Arabic farǯ-, farrūǯ-, furrūǯ- ‘a young of domestic hen’ (BK 2 562, Lane 2360, LA II 344) is almost certainly a Syriac loanword (so LSyr. 591