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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)
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PS
*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