Number: 2371
Proto-Semitic: *daʔy(-at)-
Meaning: bird of prey
Akkadian: CHECK: dūdu 'bird'
Ugaritic: dʔiy 'ave rapaz, convencionalmente "gavilán"' [DLU 126]. // In 1.18 IV 18 (ʔaštk km nšr bḥbšy // km dʔiy btʕrty 'I will put you as an eagle on my belt // like a d. on my sheath') and 1.19 I 33 (ʕl bt ʔabh nšrm trh̊pn // ybṣr ḥbl dʔiym 'vultures hover over your father's house // a band of d. is seen'). Cf. [Sasson 406].
Hebrew: dāʔā 'red kite' [KB 207], dayyā 'unclean bird of prey (frequenting ruins)' [ibid. 220], pB. [Ja. 275, 295]. // In the dietary percepts Lv 11.14 and Dt 14.13 (between ʕozniyyā and ʔayyā in the first passage, between ʔayyā and ʕōrēb in the second) as well as in Is 34.15 (inhabiting ruins: ʔak šām niḳbǝṣū dayyōt // ʔiššā rǝʕūtāh 'also d. are gathering there // one with another'.
Judaic Aramaic: dayyǝtā, dayyūtā 'name of several unclean birds' [Ja. 299], [Levy WTM I 393]; dyyh, det. dyyth 'kite' [Sok. 145].
Syrian Aramaic: daytā 'milvus' [Brock. 150], [PS 892]; also dayway id. [ibid.].
Mandaic Aramaic: dita 'kite, vulture' [DM 109].
Arabic: daʔyat- (in ʔibnu-daʔyat-) 'épithète du corbeau' [BK 1 661], [LA XIV 242]. // Literally "son of d." (for a similar compound terms see Hbr. pB. and Arm. below).
Notes: Verbal roots meaning 'to fly' in Ugr. (dʔy 'volar' [DLU 126]) and Hbr. (dāʔā 'to fly, to glide' [KB 207]) - in both cases also about birds of prey - are probably derived from the present term. In Ugr. see also dʔiy 'ala, remo' [DLU 126]. Most probably related are the following forms with prefixed h-: Hbr. pB. hădāyā (bän-hădāyā, bar-hădāyā) 'a bird of the hawk species' [Ja. 333], Jud. br hwdyy 'an unclean bird' [Sok. 98] (cf. [Levy WTM I 453, 257]), Mnd. hadia 'kite, vulture' [DM 116]. // The following terms, more or less close phonetically, cannot be adduced as immediate cognates because of the semantic obscurity: Akk. dūdu 'a bird' SB [CAD d 170], [AHw. 174] (found in one lexical list, cf. [Salonen Vögel 137ff.]: "vermutlich ein schwalbenähnlicher Vogel"); Akk. dimītu (if from *diwītu?) 'a bird or a locust' SB [CAD d 143], 'eine Art Heuschrecke?' [AHw. 170]. Found in one lexical list (Idu II 363ff., equated to Sum. BURU5; according to [Salonen Vögel 158], "deutlich ein Vogel"). Compared to the present root already in [Zimmern 51]; Tgr. dah (Nebenform ʔadhǝʔ) 'a bird (eine Storchenart /Sattelstorch?/)' [LH 509]; Amh. dudute 'a kind of bird' [K 1826]; Gog. duʔduʔ 'kind of bird' [LGur. 193]. // [DRS 202]: Hbr., Arm. (connects with the verbal root dʔy 'to fly'); [KB 207, 220]: Hbr., Ugr., Arm.; [DLU 126]: Ugr., Hbr., Syr.; [Brock. 150]: Syr., Jud., Hbr., Akk. (dimītu).
