Number: 163
Proto-Semitic: *tukʷ(-ān)- ~ *kʷVt(-ān)-
Meaning: 'bug; worm; larva'
Judaic Aramaic: tǝkak 'a worm in the silk' [Ja. 1668]
Arabic: kuttān- 'sorte d'insecte rouge et dont la picûre et douloureuse' [BK 2 864], [WKAS k 55]. According to [Selwi 187], a Yemenite word.
Geʕez (Ethiopian): tǝkʷān 'bedbug' [LGz. 573].
Tigre: tǝkan (tukan, dokan) '(bed-)bug' [LH 317], kǝtan '(bed-)bug(s)' [ibid. 415].
Tigrai (Tigriñña): tǝkʷan 'cimice' [Bass. 392].
Amharic: tǝhʷan 'bug, bedbug' [K 954]
Argobba: tuhan 'bug' [LArg. 222].
Harari: tuxān 'bug' [LHar. 149].
Gurage: Gog. Sod. tǝkan, Muh. Msq. tǝxan, Muh. tǝxʷan, Msq. Sod. tǝhan Wol. Zwy. tuhan, End. Sel. tuhān, Cha. Eža tǝxar, Gyt. tǝxār, Enm. tǝxā̃r 'bedbug' [LGur. 595].
Mehri: kettôn 'Wanze' [Jahn 202].
Notes: In South Semitic area only, PS status not quite reliable (note that Tgr. kǝtan and Mhr. kǝttôn may be Arb. loans). Tgr. kǝta 'young locusts, locust larva' [LH 412] and Tna kʷǝta 'cavallette ancora piccole che non possono volare' [Bass. 627] (< *kutā) may be related which would point to the suffixal origin of -ān in this term.
