Number: 2648
Proto-Semitic: *yaʕal- ~ ʕawāl- (?)
Meaning: 'mythological bull' 1, 'rhinoceros' 2, 'young of the elephant' 3
Akkadian: alû (elû) 1 'bull (as a mythological being)' Bogh, SB, Akkadogr. in Hitt. CAD a1, 377
Syrian Aramaic: yaʕlā 2 'unicornus, rhinoceros' Br 305
Tigre: ʕǝwal 3 'young of the elephant' ("in der Poesie auch von anderen jungen Tieren gebraucht") [LH, 477], ʔäwal [ibid., apud Munz.] (hardly connected with *ʕVwVl- 'young of an animal' which is attested in Tgr as ʕǝlu 'young of the donkey' [LH 450]; <*ʔawāl- with a variant form in ʕ- through contamination with ʕǝlu) ?
