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Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *kʷar(kir)- (?)
Meaning: goose, hen, duck; guinea-fowl; stork, crane
Borean etymology: Borean etymology
Semitic: *kurkiy- 'goose, crane'
Berber: *-kVr-t 'nestling, young of a bird; young of ostrich' ~ *ta-karaw 'k. of bird'
Egyptian: *kVr- 'young bird (swallow, raven)' (Pyr)
Western Chadic: *kwar- 'hen' 1, 'bush fowl' 2, 'guinea-fowl' 3
Central Chadic: *kʷVr(kʷVr)- 'dove' 1, 'duck' 2 , 'hen' 3
East Chadic: *kʷVr(kʷir)- 'cock' 1, 'duck' 2, 'hen' 3
Beḍauye (Beja): kaakarret 'hen'
South Cushitic: *karaʔ- 'stork'
Omotic: *kur- 'crow'
Notes: Cf. HSED 1505 (Sem; CCh; "descriptive stem"); Dolg AAN 20 (WCh and CCh comp. to Sem. *ḳāriʔ- 'partridge'. Cf. Beḍ kwiire, Som goray, Boni korii, koree 'ostrich', Saho gàrya, gàraay, Afar goroyya id.; (?) CCh: Wandala/Mandara Padukwo žírrwe, Uzam žirwe id. (<*girw-?); Arab ǯawraq- 'Struthiocamelus mas' (Freytag) Bla Beja 18 (<*kwir- ~ *garay- ~ *girw-).
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