Number: 2401
Proto-Semitic: *lV(ʔ)lV(ʔ)-
Meaning: kid
Akkadian: lalû (laliʔu, lalaʔu) 'kid' OB on [CAD l 51], [AHw. 529]. The term is relatively unfrequent in non-literary texts (most examples concentrated in documents from Nuzi); of special interest is its appearance, with an extremely archaic spelling, in an OB list of animals JCS 31 127-148, p. 131 (ÙZ la-aḫ-la- ḫa-tum, la-aḫ-la-ú). The earliest literary attestations are in UET 6 403:2 (kīma lalîm ina mayāliša išassi 'she is shouting on her bed like a kid') and YOS XI 12:5 (uḫtammiṭ lalê kalūmī u ṣeḫḫerūtim ina būd tārītim 'it makes suffer from fever kids, lambs and children in the arm of the wet-nurse'). The combina- tion uzun lalê 'a kid's ear' is used as a plant name already in OB.
Ugaritic: llʔu 'lechal (cordero o cabrito)' [DLU 245]. In literary texts only (ʔal yʕdbkm kʔimr bph // kllʔi bt_brn ḳnh 'lest he puts you in his mouth as a lamb // as a kid into the hole of his throat' 1.4 VIII 19; ḳḥ ʔim[r byd]k // ʔimr dbḥ bm ymn // llʔa klʔatnm 'take a lamb in your hand // a sacrifi- cial lamb in your right hand // a kid - in both hands of yours' 1.14 II 15; ṭbḫ ʔalpm ʔap ṣʔin // šḳl t_rm wmrʔi ʔilm // ʕglm dt šnt // ʔimr ḳmṣ llʔim 'they slaughtered large and small cattle // fell bulls and choicest rams // yearling calves // lambs in heaps (?) (and) kids' 1.22 I 14). Also in 1.86 15, among other terms for small cattle (ṣʔin, ʕz, ʔimr). Cf. further [Del Olmo Sheep 184].
Soqotri: lúloh 'brébis' [LS 231].
Notes: Cf. also Akk. lilu 'a kind of sheep' Mari [CAD l 190] (hapax in ARM 7 263 IV 16: 1 li-lum nēpeštum 'one lamb for an act of extispicy'), compared to the present root by the editor (J.Bottéro, ARM 7, p. 250). Likely related is Arb. luʔluʔ- 'antilope' [BK 2 952], [Fr. IV 77], [Lane 2641], [TA I 412] (ʔal-luʔluʔat- = ʔal-baḳaratu l- waḥšiyyatu); in [WKAS l 49] only luʔluʔ- 'pearls' (compared to gazelles). Cf. also Akk. lulīmu 'red deer, stag' OB on [CAD l 241], [AHw. 562] (with -m suffixed) and Amh. lil(lǝ)wil 'gnu' [K 41]. [DLU 245]: Ugr., Akk.
