Number: 2546
Proto-Semitic: *ṭalay-
Meaning: lamb, kid
Hebrew: ṭālǟ 'lamb' [KB 375], pB. [Ja. 535]. A rare term (3 attestations) apparently denoting (almost) a newborn animal (to be carried on the shepherd's lap accrording to Is 40.11), cf. this semantic nuance in Arb. below.
Judaic Aramaic: ṭalyā 'Lamm' [Levy TW I 303] ("nur in den jer. Trgg."). Likely a Hebraism with this meaning (see below on this root in Arm.).
Arabic: ṭalan, ṭalw- 'petit de gazelle né tout récemment, petit de tout animal à pied fendu, comme agneau, chevreau etc.; petit (se dit de toute chose)', ṭilwat- 'petit (d'un quadrupède)', ṭaliyy- 'petit (agneau, chevreau etc.)' [BK 2 103-5], [Fr. III 68-9], [Lane 1875-6], [LA XV 12].
Epigraphic South Arabian: Sab. ṭly-n (du.) 'yearling lamb' [SD 153]. Qat. ṭly 'kid, lamb' [Ricks 78]. The terms are attested once in each of the languages, in both cases denoting a sacrificial animal, v. more details in [Sima 144]. Min. ṭly 'lamb' [Hueh. 2000 203]. In the newly published inscription HSM 1936.1.20: s1ʔl fḳ kl bs2r ṭlyn 'claim upon/beyond any of the lamb meat'.
Geʕez (Ethiopian): ṭali 'goat, kid' [LGz. 590], ṭalit 'she-goat' [ibid.].
Tigre: ṭälit (coll. ṭel) 'goat' [LH 608].
Tigrai (Tigriñña): ṭel 'capra' [Bass. 887].
Harari: ṭāy 'sheep' [LH 157].
Gurage: Eža End. Enm. Gyt. Sod. Sel. Wol. Zwy. ṭay, Sod. äṭay, Muh. Msq. ṭe, Cha. ṭạ̈, Msq. Gog. äṭe 'sheep' [LGur. 638].
Notes: Arm. terms meaning 'boy, lad' likely represent this root with a specific semantic evolution: Off. Plm. ṭly 'young man, boy; servant' [HJ 423], Jud. ṭālē, ṭǝlē (det. ṭalyā) 'tender, young; young man, servant' [Ja. 536], ṭalyā (det. ṭalyǝtā) 'young; girl' [ibid. 537], ṭly (det. ṭalyā) 'child, servant' [Sok. 225], ṭlyyh, det. ṭlyth 'young girl' [ibid.], Syr. ṭalyā (f. ṭǝlītā) 'adolescens, puer' [Brock. 276], [PS 1472], Mnd. ṭalia 'boy, youth' [DM 174]. Of some interest may be Gez. wayṭal 'kind of wild she-goat, roe, kind of gazelle' [LGz. 623] and Tgr. ṭotäl 'esp. d'antilope' [LH 313]. Cf. also Gez. ʔināṭoli 'young camel' [LGz. 34], Amh. ǝnaṭoli 'young female camel' [K ... ЛАКУНА]. [KB 375]: Hbr., Arm. ('boy', in Jud. also 'lamb'), Arb., ESA, Gez., Tgr. (unconvincingly relating to the verbal root *ṭlʔ 'to be spotted'); [LGz. 590]: Gez., Eth., Arb., ESA, Hbr., Arm.; [LGur. 638]: Gur., Eth., Arb., Hbr.; [Brock. 276]: Syr., Arm., Hbr., Arb., Sab., Gez., Tna.; [Firmage 1153]: Hbr., Arm., Gez., Arb.; [Hommel 235]: Hbr., Arb., Gez., Syr.; [Sima 145]: ESA, Arb., Hbr., Eth.
