Number: 2392
Proto-Semitic: *gVrVd_-
Meaning: kind of rodent
Syrian Aramaic: gǝrādā 'castor' [Brock. 132] (corrected to gārǝdā [ibid. 841]), [PS 777].
Arabic: ǯurad_- 'espèce de gros rat des champs' [BK 1 278], [Fr. I 265], [Lane 408], [LA III 480], ǯird_awn- 'rat' [BK 1 278], [TA IX 385] (ḍarbun mina l-faʔri). Cf. further [Hommel 337].
Mehri: gǝrd_īn 'rat' [JM 124].
Harsusi: gerd_īn 'rat, mouse' [JH 41].
Notes: The PS status of the term is not fully reliable since inter-Semitic borrowings are possible. // Cf. Akk. garīdu 'Biber' SB [AHw. 282] ('a mammal' according to [CAD g 50], with the following remark: "Identified with the beaver for etymological reasons"), a hapax in AMT 41.1 r. IV 29 (S̆IR ša garīdi 'testicle of g.'). The Akk. term is likely an Arm. loan, see [Salonen Jagd 199] and [Landsberger 85] ("dieser Name dürfte allerdings im Akk. kaum heimisch sein, sondern mit der Droge aus Syrien eingewandert"). // Of some interest may be Gez. ḳǝrādin, ḳǝrdān 'field mouse' [LGz. 440] (a borrowing from an Arb. dialect?). // Cf. Arb. ǯuld_- 'taupe' [BK 1 314], ǯalid_- [LA old V 13] (a variant root?). // [DRS 182]: Akk., Syr.; [ibid. 183]: Arb. (also ǯard_am-), MSA (also Soq. gerd_īn, quoted withot source; no such term is quoted in the the available sources and -d_- is quite unexpected).
