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Akkadian
pargallu - a type of sheep
(CAD B 110, AHw. 1582)
From Sum. barĝal(a) <(a sheep with) unplucked fleece> (see PSD B 101 {bar} A mng. 4.3.5; ibid., 122b). The correspondence Sum. b ~ Akk. p suggests an early loanword