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Syriac
ḳāḳā - pelican
(LSyr. 688; PS 3708)
Reconstruction
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