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Attested only in the S. Sem. area; possibly an areal term not of common Sem. origin.

There is no reliable cognate for Akk.-Ugr. *ḳrd ‘to be heroic.’ Arb. qdr ‘to have power or ability to do something’ (Lane 2495) could perhaps be compared (with metathesis). Also of interest is Tna. ḳärrädä ‘to refuse to agree or listen; to be stubborn, to argue, to persist in wanting to overcome someone; to be rival, to quarrel with each other’ (TED 949). (Kogan 2015:337)

Scarcely attested in Arb. and MSA only. Less likely an Arb. loan in MSA in view of meaning differences.

Akk.-Ugr. *lsm ‘to be swift’ lacks etymological parallels.

Though likely derived from PS *mḫṣ̂ ‘to smite’ (see in HALOT 571, CDG 338), a parallelism in Arb. and Eth. is hardly a fortuitous result of independent semantic development.

Formally or semantically similar lexemes are attested more or less throughout WS – Hbr. maddūaˁ ‘why?’ (HALOT 548), OffArm. mdˁm ‘something’ (DNWSI 598), Gez. ˀəndāˁi ‘perhaps’ (CDG 28), Soq. έdaˁ, ɛdáˁ ‘perhaps’ (LS 53) – it is only Ugr. mndˁ that matches Akk. minde exactly in both form and meaning (Kogan 2015:338).

The origin of Akk.-Ugr. *nāgir- ‘herald’ is uncertain. Huehnergard’s assertion “the word nāgiru ‘herald’ is not attested in any Semitic language other than Akkadian” (1987a:94) is nevertheless correct (contra J. Sanmartín).

one of the four widespread designations of camel in individual languages, the similarity between these designations must be due to diffusion from an Arabian source