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No definitive etymology can be suggested.

A Kassite origin is suggested by the element pir(i)-, as in other Kassite plant names, and the ending -š (Balkan 1954:219 No. 64),

According to Mutzafi 2014:45, the Akkadian word goes back to an Aramaic prototype *prinda, postulated for Classical Mandaic on the basis of Neo-Mandaic pǝrendɔ “dried pomegranate seed” (< *pǝredda < *pVridtā), with dissimilation *dd > nd common in Mandaic. See further JPA pyrṭh, det. pyrṭth ‘pomegranate seed’, JBA prīdā id., Syr. predtā ‘grain, seed’, previously considered as the source of the Akkadian lexeme in Abraham-Sokoloff 2011:44 and DJBA 932.

No etymology can be suggested. The Akkadian lexeme is remotely similar to Hbr. ṣəpardēaˁ “frog” (< *ŝipardiˁ ̣ -) and its cognates dealt with in SED II No. 222, but there is hardly any possibility to relate it to this protoform via regular phonological developments.

Or pirimaḫ, pirzaḫ, piriduḫ. From Kassite (explicitly referred to as Kassite by the ancient scribes).

No etymology can be suggested.

Or pirṣiduḫḫu. The etymology is obscure.

Most probably, of Hurrian origin. Analysable as fer-ž-and-i, derived from a root *f/perž- with the root complement -and (Wilhelm 2008:88) and the thematic vowel -i,