NUMBER: 2136
PROTO: *ḳarn-
MEANING: horn
аккадский: ḳarnu OA, OB on [CAD ḳ 134], [AHw 904]
угаритский: ḳrn [Aist 283]
финикийский: PHO ḳrn [T 294]
еврейский (иврит): ḳärän [KB 1144]
арамейские: PLM ḳrnʔ [HJ 1034]
библейский арамейский: ḳärän (ḳarnā) [KB deutsch 1776]
иудейский арамейский: ḳǝran, ḳärän (ḳarnā) [Ja 1422]; ḳrn [Sok 506]
сирийский арамейский: ḳarnā [Brock 697]
современные арамейские: NSYR ḳāna 'Horn' [MP 122] MMND ḳarna [M MND 506] (given in brackets while a common term for 'horn' is šax) [M MND 506] IRAN *ḳānā (is written ḳrnʔ) 'il corno': c. suff. ḳânu 'il corno di lui'
мандейский арамейский: ḳarna [DM 403]
арабский: ḳarn- [BK 2 727]
геэз (древнеэфиопский): ḳarn [LGz 442]
тигре: ḳär, ḳärn [LH 242]
тиграй (тигринья): ḳärni [Bass 255]
амхарский: ḳänd [K 791] (for *rn > nd in AMH see [Podolsky 51])
гафат: ḳänd [Gaf 224]
харари: ḳär [LHar 128]
восточноэфиопские: SEL WOL ZWY ḳär [LGur 494]
гураге: MUH GOG ḳär, CHA ENN END GYE ḳän, EZ̆A MSQ ḳänn [ibid.]
мехри: ḳōn (pl. ḳǝrūn) [JM 236]
джиббали: ḳun (pl. ḳérún) [JJ 150].
Note ḳǝrnút 'womb' representing, if not homonymous, an unusual semantic development
харсуси: ḳōn (pl. ḳerōn) [JH 77]
сокотри: ḳan (pl. ḳírihon) [LS 377]
NOTES: Possibly <*ḳar-n-, cf. TGR ḳär with no traces of the lost *-n and similar forms in ETH EAST and GUR.
For discussion, AFRASIAN and broader connections (in KARTVELIAN and INDO-EUROPEAN), cf. [Dolg 1994 270-71].
Cf. SAB ḳrn 'to fight; to guard, to protect' [SD 107] with a possible meaning shift.
[Fron 43] (*ḳarn- 'corno' /GEZ,ARB,SYR,HBR,UGR,AKK/); [Holma 147]: AKK, ARB, HBR, SYR, GEZ; [KB 1144]: HBR, UGR, AKK, ARM, ARB, GEZ, TGR; [LGz 442]: GEZ, ETH, ARB, MHR, HBR, ARM, PHO, UGR
