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Paulys Encyclopedia writes a short note about the (Pre)-Greek word Ἀσίρακος/asirakos meaning locust (Heuschrecke). [1]
Etymology is uncertain. Frisk asks himself: "Egyptian Loanword ?". [2]
It is probably a Pre-Greek word, that means a word that the Greeks had took from the adjacent cultures.
I have a proposal: Türkic sarıçga, meaning locust. There is a another word çekirge in Türkish dialects, too.
There are many theses about its Türkic etymology like Proto-Türkic *sārïg, meaning yellow, for sarıçga and some derive çekirge from sek- (to jump).
As we can see above, ist is obviously an Altaic word.
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For çekirge I have this proposal of Starostin/Dybo:
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Both are interesting for our Pre-Greek word. Asirakos has maybe this "mobile a+" in it. That means the word was originally sirakos, a metathesis of *sārïg ?
When we look at Hungarian sár, sárga, dial. sárog, sárig meaning yellow we can see the Türkic word, too.
Fo a better match see Proto-Mongolian sira meaning yellow.
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For a further word that came from Türkic languages is that Russian word саранча/sarancha meaning locust. It can help us to show the direction of that locust word into the European languages that supports my idea and proposal.
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Uzunbacak Adem
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Sources:
[1] https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/RE:%E1%BC%88%CF%83%CE%AF%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%82
[2] http://ieed.ullet.net/friskL.html
About Locust words in Türkish:
https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/54850
https://nek.istanbul.edu.tr/ekos/TEZ/46678.pdf
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