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Proto-Altaic: *ki̯úŕu
Meaning: a k. of vehicle
Russian meaning: вид повозки
Turkic: *Kɨŕak, *Kɨŕagu
Mongolian: *kür-dün
Tungus-Manchu: *kur-
Japanese: *kúrúmá
Comments: Judging from the Turkic evidence, the vehicle in question could have been not a wheeled one, but some kind of sleigh or sledge; however, this may be also a secondary development in Turkic (all other languages point rather to some wheeled carriage or just wheel). Among common derivatives one can mention PT *Kɨŕak = Evn. kūruke-n.
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