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▪ MilitarevKogan2005 (SED II) #84: prot(?)Sem *g˅r˅ḏ(-˅n)- // *g˅r˅ǧ(-˅n)- ‘kind of rodent’. »The protSem status of the present reconstruction is not fully reliable since intersemitic borrowings are possible« – see below, section DISC.
▪ From CSem *guraḏ‑ (exact form uncertain) ‘rodent’ – Huehnergard2011.
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▪ [v1] MilitarevKogan2005 (SED II) #84: Syr gārədā ‘castor’, Mhr gərḏīn ‘rat’, Ḥrṣ gerḏīn ‘rat, mouse’, Ar ǧuraḏ ‘espèce de gros rat des champs’, ǧirḏawn ‘rat’. – For further possible parallels (Gz, Akk), see below, section DISC. – Outside Sem: Exact AfrAs parallels in Berb *g(ʷ)arziz- ‘hare’, perfectly corresponding to Sem *g˅r˅ḏ-: Shawiya a-gʷerzíz, Mzab Wargla a-gergīz (-g- < *-z- assimilated to g-), Rif a-yerziz, Ghadames ta-ǧerǧīs, pl. ta-ǧerzaz. Cf. also (EChad) Dangla gârzè ‘rat sp.’ (unless an Arabism), (CChad) Gude tángə̀rə̀žáne ‘type of animal (like squirrel or weasel)’ (< *tan-g˅r˅ǧ-an-).
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▪ [v1] MilitarevKogan2005 (SED II) #84: »The protSem status of the present reconstruction is not fully reliable since intersemitic borrowings are possible. Cf. Akk garīdu translated as ‘Biber’ in AHw 282 and ‘a mammal’ in CAD (with the following remark: “Identified with the beaver for etymological reasons”). In view of -d- instead of the expected -z-, this term is likely to be an Aram loanword as suggested by Salonen1976 and Landsberger 1934 […]. According to Militarev, forms in -d in Gz and Berb (below) make this assumption less certain. Cf. Gz ḳərādin, ḳərdān ‘field mouse’ with ḳ- and -d- instead of the expected g- and -z- […]. [A] striking parallel to Gz ḳərādin, ḳərdān is represented by Berb *ḳard- ‘rat’: Fojaha γérdé, Rif aγarda, Mzab Shawiya Qabyle Shilḥ aγerda, etc. – [Also:] One wonders whether some other phonetically perfect but semantically too distant matches to Sem *g˅r˅ḏ- may be compared: (EChad) Dangla gírzìbó ‘varan’ (Fedry 326), (NOmot) Sheko góržu ‘gecko’, goržube ‘lizard’ (-b- here and in the Dangla term is a fossilized suffix), on the one hand, and (SOmot) Dirne gerž ‘cat’, on the other hand.
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