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▪ MilitarevKogan2005 (SED II) #197: Accord. to Zimmern, the word is an Akkadism, but as long as that is not proven one may assume that it is from protSem *su/inun(˅w/y)-at- / *cu/inūn(˅w/y)-at- ‘swallow’.
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▪ Akk sinuntu (sinundu, ṣinundu, sinūnu) ‘swallow’ (OB on), šinūnūtu (šinūntu, šunūnūtu) ‘a bird | eine große Schwalbe’ (both forms only in literary texts and lexical lists), Ug snnt ‘swallow’ (? – meaning conjectural since the word is attested only as a divine designation), postBiblHbr sənūnīt, JudAram Syr sənūnītā, Tur snunīṯo ʻswallow’, SamAram snwny ‘a bird’, Ar sunūnuw (n.un. sunūnuwaẗ, sunūniyaẗ), SyrAr sənänaw ‘martinet’.
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▪ »All WSem forms are considered Akkadisms in Zimmern1917: 51 which remains to be proved« – MilitarevKogan2005 SED II #197.
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