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*ḳṣr - to be short
(Kogan 2015: 125)
is uncertain whether Gez.
ḳaṣara
‘to enclose with a wall, to blockade, to delimit’ is related to this root
Words
Ugaritic
ḳṣr
- to be short
(DUL 716)
Hebrew
ḳṣr
- to be short
(HALOT 1126)
Arabic
qṣr
- to be or become short
(Lane 2532)
Geez
ḳaṣara
- to enclose with a wall, to blockade, to delimit
(CDG 450)
perhaps related to
*ḳṣr
- to be short
Mehri
ḳəṣawr
- to fall short (in a race), to give short measure
(ML 240)
Jibbali
ḳɔ́ṣɔ́r
- to fall short, not to keep up; to give short measure
(JL 152)