< Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic
Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/ḳaraṣ-
Proto-Semitic
Verb
*ḳaraṣ-
- to poke, to prick
Descendants
- East Semitic:
- Akkadian: 𒋺 (karāṣu, garāṣu, ḫarāṣu, qarāṣu, “to nip off”)
- Central Semitic:
- Arabic: قَرَصَ (qaraṣa, “to pinch”)
- Arabic: قَرَضَ (qaraḍa, “to cut, to gnaw”)
- Aramaic:
- Classical Syriac: ܩܪܰܨ (qeṣr, “to pinch”)
- Ugaritic: 𐎖𐎗𐎕 (qrṣ, “to shape clay into an effigy”)
- South Semitic:
- Amharic: ቀረጸ (ḳäräṣä, “to incise”)
- Ge'ez: ቀረጸ (ḳäräṣä, “to incise”)
- Tigrinya: ቀረጸ (ḳäräṣä, “to incise”)
- → Old Armenian: կրծեմ (krcem, “to gnaw”) (perhaps)
Further reading
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 444b