tsir/i

Iraqw

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-South Cushitic *ciraʿ-. Cognate with Gedeo c'i'a.

Noun

tsir/i

1. bird

References

• Orel, Vladimir E., Stolbova, Olga V. (1995) Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary: Materials for a Reconstruction (Handbuch der Orientalistik; I.18), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill, page 246.