Number: 2455
Proto-Semitic: *ḳaʔ(ḳaʔ)-
Meaning: kind of bird
Akkadian: ḳaḳû 'a bird' OB on [CAD ḳ 124], [AHw. 901]. The earliest attestations are in the OB letter AbB 6 179:17 (ḳa-ḳu-ú/ḳá-ḳé-e, as a harmful bird). Cf. [Salonen Vögel 243ff.] (compared to Jud. ḳaḳway). According to Salonen, "ein schwalbe- nähnlicher Vogel". Cf. also ḳaḳânu 'a bird' LL [CAD ḳ 99] (on possible relationship between the two terms cf. [Salonen Vögel 243]).
Eblaitic: ḳú-ḳí-a-nu-um = A.BALAG.MUS̆EN [MEE IV 620]. Identified with the present root in [Dombrowski 221] (ḳuḳiyānum 'cormorant') and [Conti 1993 ...]. Cf. further [Bo- nechi 265]
Hebrew: ḳāʔāt (ḳāʔat) 'an unclean species of bird frequenting ruins and the desert; a type of owl (?): scops owl or jackdaw' [KB 1059], pB. ḳāʔāt (pl. ḳāʔōt) 'pelican' [Ja. 1307]. In the dietary prohibitions of Lv 11.18 and Dt 14.7 (between tinšämät and rāḥām(ā)) and the lists of animals frequenting ruins (Is 34.11 and Zeph 2.14; in Ps 102.7, paralleled by kōs).
Judaic Aramaic: ḳātā, ḳā(ʔ)tā 'pelican' [Ja. 1434]. Also ḳā(ʔ)ḳā(ʔ) 'goose' [Ja. 1306], ḳuḳyātā 'name of a clean bird (passing as forbidden in Palestine)' [ibid. 1340], ḳāḳā, ḳāḳǝtā 'pelican' [ibid. 1409], ḳaḳway 'name of an unclean bird' [ibid. 1409], ḳḳ 'pelican' [Sok. 501].
Syrian Aramaic: ḳāḳā 'pelecanus' [Brock. 688], [PS 3708].
Notes: Cf. also Hbr. pB. ḳīḳ 'name of a bird, pelican' [Ja. 137], Jud. ḳūʔay 'name of an unclean bird' [Ja. 1323], Amh. ḳoḳ 'partridge' [K 761], ḳʷaḳʷate 'bird the size of a crow which has black and white feathers' [K 762]. Not quite reliable as independent onomatopoetic formations in particular languages are not unlikely. If still reconsructible as PS, reduplication may be a feature appearing already on the Common Semitic level.
