Cf. also ḳayyān 'one having abnormally large testicles' [ibid. 1359]

    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