Afroasiatic etymology :

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *(ʔa-)ḳʷay-

Meaning: k. of bird (of prey?)

Semitic: *ḳʷVʔ(ḳʷVʔ)- 'large bird (of prey)'

Egyptian: ḳy 'bird' (18)

Dahalo (Sanye): ʔaaḳaḳo 'sp. crow'

Mogogodo (Yaaku): ḳɔtiḳɔtɛ 'hornbill'

Notes: Probably identical with *ḳawḳ- 'partridge, francolin'

Semitic etymology :

Number: 2455

Proto-Semitic: *ḳaʔ(ḳaʔ)-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

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.

Egyptian etymology :

Old Egyptian: ḳy (18)

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'bird'

Dahalo etymology :

Dahalo: ʔaaḳaḳo

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'crow'

Mogogodo etymology :

Mogogodo: ḳɔtiḳɔtɛ

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'hornbill'

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