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Proto-Altaic: *kŏ̀ru ( ~ -ŕ-)
Nostratic: Nostratic
Meaning: nut
Russian meaning: орех
Tungus-Manchu: *kuri
Korean: *kắrái
Japanese: *kùrù-i
Comments: Дыбо 11, Whitman 1985, 193, 231, Menges 1984, 274-275. Basically an Eastern isogloss: the Turkic forms of the type koz are most probably borrowed from Iranian. There are also forms reflecting *koŕak (VEWT 285), but they may also reflect a contamination of the root *Koŕ (or the borrowed koz) with the genuine root *kusɨk (e.g. Tuva ku"suk), see *kušu.
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