Akkadian

ḳerû - to invite (CAD Q 242, AHw. 918)

Cf. ḳerītu ‘banquet, festivaľ (CAD Q 240, AHw. 917). In von Soden’s view, the WS parallel to this Akkadian verb is *ḳrˀ ‘to calľ (Kogan 2015:214).