Cf. kirru, kerru 'the region extending from the throat to and including the clavicles' [CAD k 410], [AHw 468]

    Cf. YEM karʕan 'to wash s.o.'s legs and feet' [Piamenta 429]

    Cf. also rākʷǝʕ 'shoulder blade of an animal which serves as a shovel' [ibid. 469], which is, according to Leslau, probably a misprint for rākub; one wonders whether it may be a metathesis of kʷǝrnāʕ (with a loss of -n-?)

    -n- reconstructed on the evidence of part of the ETH examples and HRS may be an old suffix incorporated into the stem and lost in most of SEM as a result of triconsonantization; in this conection note a widespread verbal root krʕ 'to kneel' (HBR, ARB, UGR) likely related to this nominal root.

    SEM *-ā- tentatively reconstructed here yields -ā- in HBR, which speaks in favor of the common opinion (see, for example, [Blau 35]) that HBR ā is a regular reflex of SEM *ā in an unstressed position; cf., however, ARM JUD karʕā which cannot be derived from a SEM protoform with *-ā).

    AMH kǝnd 'cubit, arm' and GAF kǝndä 'arm' compared by Leslau to this root [LGur 347], see in *kVmd-, No. Placed under kǝrrä is also END h_ǝ^tnä, hǝ^tnä [ibid.] with an unexplained inserted dental, which may alternatively be compared to *kVmd-, in any case, with a peculiar phonetic development.

    Of interest is JIB kɛrmóʕ/kurũʕ 'heel' [JJ 134] with a possible meaning shift (and -m- <*-n-?). Other MSA examples are possibly related to the present root with metathesis: MHR QISHN rḗkǝn 'joint' [SS L 2 231] (not in [JM]) and SOQ rékin 'os' [LS 400], 'poignet; coude; épaule; phalange; articulation; os' [SS L LS 1469]. There is also SOQ šérʕehan (šerʕan, šérḥan) 'pieds' (pl.) [LS 422]; š may be <*k ("k palatalise quelquefois en š" [LS 24]). However, Johnstone quotes the same SOQ word as ŝǝ́rʕǝhān with ŝ- comparing it to MHR ŝǝráyn 'leg' [JM 382]; also given with ŝ- are SOQ examples in [SSL LS 1473]. Note that in SOQ the forms discussed are attested only as suppletive plural to the singular ŝab/f. If not for MHR ŝǝráyn 'leg', very likely related, ŝ in SOQ in the plural forms quoted by various authors (alongside with those with š) could possibly be explained from š changed by contamination with ŝ of the singular forms.

    [Fron 49] (*kurāʕ- 'gamba (di bovini e ovini)' /GEZ,ARB,SYR,HBR,UGR 'iniginocchiarsi', AKK); [Holma 137]: AKK, HBR, SYR, ARB, GEZ; [KB 500]: HBR, ARM, ARB, GEZ, AKK; [Brock 348]: SYR, ARM, AKK, HBR, GEZ; [LGz 293]: GEZ, ETH (also AMH kǝnd, GAF kǝndä), ARB, ESA, SOQ (šerʕehan), HBR, ARM, AKK