Number: 2329
Proto-Semitic: *ʔaw(a)z- ~ *waz(z)-
Meaning: goose
Ugaritic: ʔuz 'ánsar, ganso' [DLU 66]. // Attested several times in economic contexts (e.g. ʔuzm mrʔat 'fattened geese' 4.247:20, šmn ʔuz 'goose fat' 4.129:1).
Hebrew: PB ʔāwāz 'goose' [Ja. 23].
Judaic Aramaic: ʔawzā, ʔăwāzā 'goose' [Ja. 23], [Levy WTM I 38].
Syrian Aramaic: wazzā 'anser' [Brock. 184], [PS 1060] (also wāzā).
Mandaic Aramaic: auaza 'goose' [DM 9].
Arabic: ʔiwazz- [BK 1 68], wazz- 'oie' [BK 2 1527] ([LA V 428-9]).
Notes: Somehow related must be Gez. zǝy 'goose' [LGz. 646] (according to Leslau, an Amharism) and Amh. zǝyy (zǝyyi, zǝyye) id. [K 1671] though the phonetic developments implying this relationship are totally obscure. Akk. za-a-ú-um in the OB list of birds may also belong here (v. [Black-Rawi 124, III 16]). Akk. ūsu 'Ente' OA, OB on [AHw. 1438] is thought to be borrowed from Sum. UZ, but the Sum. term itself is most probably and early Semitism (as suggested in [Landsberger Kurkû 257], cf. also [Salonen Vögel 288-9]). OA spelling of ūsu 'duck-figure' as ú-ús-e-en and h̊u-us is unusual and deserves further investigation. // Two bird names comparable phonetically but having unclear or unknown meanings are attested: Akk. wazwazu listed among other bird names in the OB lexical list IM 90646 IV 2 is compared to the present root in [Black-Rawi 122]; Eža wizännä, Cha. wizänä, Gyt. wizäñä, Enm. wīzäñä, End. wīzäññä 'kind of a bird' [LGur. 675] (also Amh. wiza quoted [ibid.] apud d'Abbadie, not in [K]). // [DLU 66]: Ugr., Arb., Akk. (ūsu); [Brock. 184]: Syr., Jud., Arb. (all < Akk. < Sum.).
