Number: 2332
Proto-Semitic: *ʔayy-
Meaning: bird of prey
Akkadian: a-IA-ú MUS̆EN = a-a-[ú] 'a bird' [CAD a1 236] (Hapax in a lexical list). // Not very reliable textually and semantically.
Eblaitic: a-a-tum = Sum. BURU4.MUS̆EN [MEE 4 1370', 049].
Hebrew: ʔayyā 'black kite' [KB 39], pB. 'name of an unclean bird' [Ja. 1707]. // In the dietary percepts Lv 11.14 (between dāʔā and ʕōrēb) and Dt 14.13 (between rāʔā and dayyā) as well as in Jb 28.7 (nātīb lō(ʔ) yǝdāʕō ʕāyiṭ // wǝlō(ʔ) šǝzapattū ʕēn ʔayyā 'a path which birds of prey do not know // and the eye of a kite does not perceive').
Arabic: yuʔyuʔ- 'émérillon (oiseau de proie)' [BK 2 1621], [LA I 202] (metathesis and reduplication).
Notes: Cf. Tgr. ʕaya 'falcon' [LH 480] with ʕ- instead of ʔ-. As for End. ayä 'kind of bird of prey' [LGur. 116], the quality of the original word-initial laryngeal is unknown. // Sam. hʔy 'a bird' [Tal 198] is certainly related. // [KB 39]: Hbr., Arb., Akk., Tgr.; [LGur. 116]: End., Tgr., Hbr. (wrongly quoted as ʕayyā). СТОИТ ПОСМОТРЕТЬ Salonen Orient. 19:407 и Yeivin ArOr 4.71.
