+ Eg.-syll. na⸗ˁa⸗ru₂⸗na ‘soldiers’ (Hoch 1994:182‒183)
can go back either to PS
*nˁr ‘to cry, to shout’ or to the
homonous root with meaning “to stir, to raise”, but neither seems to provide a fully suitable source of derivation. Arb.
nuˁarat- ‘foetus in the womb of female wild ass’ is semantically more attractive, but too isolated. J. Hoch (1994:182‒183) tentatively connects *naˁr- with Akk.
nīru ‘a word for troops’