Number: 182
Proto-Semitic: *ḳVr-
Meaning: frog
Syrian Aramaic: yaḳrūrā 'rana' [Brock. 308], [PS 1627]. On ya- prefixation v. Introduction, ... . Cf. also ḳārītā 'testudo; locustae species' [Brock. 696], [PS 3717] (possibly related with meaning shifts).
Arabic: ḳirr-, ḳurr-, ḳarr-at-, ḳirr-at-, ḳurr-at- 'grenouille' [BK 2 699], [LA V 91].
Geʕez (Ethiopian): ḳāḳer 'frog' [LGz. 439]. With partial reduplication (v. Introduction, ...).
Notes: Likely related to this root are forms with prefixed and suf- fixed ʕ in Syr. ʕaḳrūḳā 'rana' [Brock. 544], [PS 2974], Tgr. ḳorǝʕ 'frog' [LH 243] and Tna. ḳʷǝrʕo 'rana' [Bass. 292] (with an interesting remark "dicesi pure ḳʷǝrʕob"). Cf. also Jud. ʔaḳroḳtā 'frog' [Ja. 113] (to be directly connected with Syr. ʕaḳrūḳā with weakening of *ʕ to ʔ). Cf. further Eth. forms with suffixed ʕ combined with prefixed or suffixed Vn: - Tgr. ʔanḳorǝʕ 'grenouille' [LH 372], Tna. ǝnḳoroʕ 'frog' [LGz. 443] (not in [Bass.]), Har. anḳurāraḥti 'frog' [LHar. 29], Sel. Wol. Zwy. ǝnḳurarit 'frog' [LGur. 71]; - Gez. ḳʷarnanaʕāt, ḳʷarnānǝʕāt, ḳʷanānaʕāt, ḳarnanāʕ 'frog; snail' [LGz. 442], Amh. ḳǝrnanot 'frog' [K 735], ḳʷärnänat (ḳʷärnanat) id. [ibid.], ḳurno 'snail' [ibid.]. [LGz. 442]: Gez., Eth., Jud, Arb.
