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Central Chadic etymology :
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Proto-CChadic: *kʷa
Meaning: egg
Bata: (Demsa dial.) kōá [CLR]
Notes: Cf. Bata [Mo] kwále
cchet-prnum,cchet-meaning,cchet-bat,cchet-notes,
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Afroasiatic etymology :
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Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *ḳʷay(ʔ)-
Meaning: egg
Notes: Cf. *(ʔan-)ḳʷa(n)ḥ- id.
afaset-meaning,afaset-sem,afaset-brb,afaset-wch,afaset-cch,afaset-dhl,afaset-omo,afaset-notes,
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Semitic etymology :
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Number: 2128
Proto-Semitic: *ḳ(ʷ)ayḳ(ʷ)ay-
Meaning: egg
Hebrew: PB ḳīḳ 'abnormally large membrum virile' [Ja 1367], 'abnormally large testicles' [ibid. apud Arukh]. Cf. also ḳayyān 'one having abnormally large testicles' [ibid. 1359]
Arabic: ḳīḳat- 'pellicule très-mince sous la coque de l'oeuf' [BK 2 847], ḳīḳiyy- 'blanc d'oeuf' [ibid.]
Harari: č̣iḳāy 'egg of the louse' [LHar 52] (č̣ < *ḳ before i)
Notes: A difficult case. Meanings very diverse, though all semantic shifts are quite tenable like 'egg' > 'testicle' in HBR PB (cf. RUS яичко meaning both 'little egg' and 'testiculus'). HBR PB ḳayyān suggests a non-reduplicated stem underlying SEM *ḳīḳ-(at-), which is probably to be reconstructed as *ḳayḳay- (cf. -y as a third radical in ARB ḳīḳiyy- and HAR č̣iḳāy, below).
Note presumably derived forms in ARB ḳyḳ 'glousser (se dit des poules)' [BK 2 847] and TGR ḳeḳe hallet, said of a hen that clucks when she has laid an egg [LH 247].
Cf. TNA č̣aḳʷit 'pulcino' [Bass 934], possibly from *ḳaḳʷ-it-, related to 'egg' with a meaning shift. Cf. also TNA AMH ARG č̣ač̣ut; EAST: HAR č̣āč̣u, SEL č̣ǝwč̣ǝwä, WOL č̣uč̣iyye; GUR: GYE č̣ǝwač̣wǝyä, etc. 'chick' [LGur 191]; all these example all probably not from č̣uč̣a balä 'to twitter', as Leslau asserts [ibid.], but from *ḳ(ʷ)aḳ(ʷ)ay-t- (on cases of palatalization of ḳ to č̣ see [ibid. XXXIX]), to be compared to the present root.
There is another ETH term for 'egg', *ʔanḳʷaḳʷVḥ-, likely related to this one: GEZ ʔanḳoḳǝho, ʔǝnḳoḳǝho, ʔanḳoḳʷǝho, ʔǝnḳoḳʷǝho, ʔanḳoḳǝḥo, ʔǝnḳoḳǝho [LGz 31] (note that forms with -l compared by Leslau should be separated), TGR ʔǝnḳoḳḥo [LH 372] (cf. also ḳoḳaḥ 'frankoline partridge' [ibid. 248]), TNA ʔǝnḳʷaḳʷǝḥo [Bass 529]; GAF anḳʷä [LGaf 180]; EAST: HAR aḳuḥ [LHar 30] (*-n- assimilated?), WOL ǝnḳaḳot, ǝnḳaʔot, ZWY ǝnḳāḳu [LGur 68]; GUR: EŽA MUH MSQ GOG anḳʷä, SOD anḳo [ibid.]. The Auslaut -ḥ in ETH lacking in other SEM (see, however, SYR ḳawḳiḥ 'clamavit (gallina)' [Brock 656]) may possibly be explained by contamination with ETH *ʔVn-ḳulaliḥ- 'egg' (see *ḳa(w)ḥil-, No. ); cf. also [Takač МHЕ] on the hypothetic prefixed or suffixed element ḥ denoting body parts in AFRASIAN
semet-proto,semet-prnum,semet-meaning,semet-hbr,semet-ara,semet-hrr,semet-notes,
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Berber etymology :
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Proto-Berber: *waḳy
Meaning: 'testicles'
Izayan: tya-uqi-t, Ishkern Igerwan a-uqi
brbet-prnum,brbet-meaning,brbet-izy,
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West Chadic etymology :
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Proto-WChadic: *ḳwaʔi-
Meaning: 'egg'
Hausa: ḳwái (cf. ḳwai-ḳwaya 'scrotal infection')
Gerke=Yiwom: nkie [Fp], ŋ́kyɛ́ʔ [CLR: 122]
Diri: ákì-n [Sḳ
Notes: Cp. TAL (sura gr.) hàs-khɛ̄ ('egg-egg')[CLR}
wchet-prnum,wchet-meaning,wchet-hsa,wchet-grk,wchet-dir,wchet-notes,
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Dahalo etymology :
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Dahalo: ḳawe
Meaning: 'eggshell'
Notes: Elderkin
dhlet-prnum,dhlet-meaning,dhlet-notes,
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Omotic etymology :
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Proto-Omotic: *kew- (<*ḳiw-?)
Meaning: 'egg'
Janjero (Yamma, Yemsa): ke(e)wa
omoet-prnum,omoet-meaning,omoet-yam,
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