Berber etymology : List with all references

Proto-Berber: *-wVzz

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'ostrich'

Ghadames: awǝz(z), pl. wǝzz-ān 'autruche' [Lanfry 397]

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *ʔa-waʒʒ-

Meaning: goose, duck, cock

Semitic: *ʔaw(a)z- ~ *waz(z)- 'goose'

Berber: *-wVzz 'ostrich'

Egyptian: *zVw- 'duck, goose'

East Chadic: *ʔuzw- 'chick, cock'

Number: 2329

Proto-Semitic: *ʔaw(a)z- ~ *waz(z)-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: goose

Ugaritic: ʔuz 'ánsar, ganso' [DLU 66]. // Attested several times in economic contexts (e.g. ʔuzm mrʔat 'fattened geese' 4.247:20, šmn ʔuz 'goose fat' 4.129:1).

Hebrew: PB ʔāwāz 'goose' [Ja. 23].

Judaic Aramaic: ʔawzā, ʔăwāzā 'goose' [Ja. 23], [Levy WTM I 38].

Syrian Aramaic: wazzā 'anser' [Brock. 184], [PS 1060] (also wāzā).

Mandaic Aramaic: auaza 'goose' [DM 9].

Arabic: ʔiwazz- [BK 1 68], wazz- 'oie' [BK 2 1527] ([LA V 428-9]).

Notes: Somehow related must be Gez. zǝy 'goose' [LGz. 646] (according to Leslau, an Amharism) and Amh. zǝyy (zǝyyi, zǝyye) id. [K 1671] though the phonetic developments implying this relationship are totally obscure. Akk. za-a-ú-um in the OB list of birds may also belong here (v. [Black-Rawi 124, III 16]). Akk. ūsu 'Ente' OA, OB on [AHw. 1438] is thought to be borrowed from Sum. UZ, but the Sum. term itself is most probably and early Semitism (as suggested in [Landsberger Kurkû 257], cf. also [Salonen Vögel 288-9]). OA spelling of ūsu 'duck-figure' as ú-ús-e-en and h̊u-us is unusual and deserves further investigation. // Two bird names comparable phonetically but having unclear or unknown meanings are attested: Akk. wazwazu listed among other bird names in the OB lexical list IM 90646 IV 2 is compared to the present root in [Black-Rawi 122]; Eža wizännä, Cha. wizänä, Gyt. wizäñä, Enm. wīzäñä, End. wīzäññä 'kind of a bird' [LGur. 675] (also Amh. wiza quoted [ibid.] apud d'Abbadie, not in [K]). // [DLU 66]: Ugr., Arb., Akk. (ūsu); [Brock. 184]: Syr., Jud., Arb. (all < Akk. < Sum.).

Old Egyptian: zVw-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'duck, goose'

Notes: (Pyr) z.t 'Ente, Ganz', kꜣ zw.t 'Erpel' (i.e. 'male of a duck; cf. kꜣ 'bull' written with the phallos determinative)

Proto-EChadic: *ʔuzw-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'chick, cock'

Mokilko: ʔùzú (JMkk 192)

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