Number: 2424
Proto-Semitic: *ɣVrnīḳ-
Meaning: crane
Akkadian: urnīḳu 'Kranich ?' SB, LB [AHw. 1431]. More details see in [Salonen Vögel 286ff.] where a variant ḫurnīḳu is quoted (with ḫ < *ɣ, recognized already by Salonen: "Lautliche Variante ḫurnīḳu, die ausgezeichnet zum arab. ɣurnīq passt"). On this form see MSL VIII/2 167 (ḫur-ni-[...]), [Landsberger kurkû 258] (ḫur-ni-ḳu).
Arabic: ɣirnīḳ-, ɣurnūḳ-, ɣirnawḳ-, ɣurnayḳ- 'grue' [BK 2 461], [LA X 287] (extensively discussed in [Dozy II 210]).
Notes: A direct Akk. loan into Arb. is hardly tenable (contra [Zim- mern 51]; note that the term is not present in any Aramaic lan- guage). At the same time, both Akk. and Arb. terms are remar- kably similar to the IE terms for crane. Forms coming from areas relatively near geographically are of particular interest (Arm. ḳṛunk, Oss. zyrnaeg [Gamkrelidze-Ivanov 540]). Borrowed from an IE source independently into Akk. and Arb.?
