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Syriac
yaḳrūrā - rana (frog)
(LSyr. 308, PS 1627)
See further Löw 1969: 53. Cf. also ḳārītā ‘curculio; testudo’ (weevil; tortoise) (LSyr. 696, PS 3717), possibly related with meaning shifts.
Reconstruction
PS
*ḳVr(V)r-
- frog
(SED II No. 137)
Likely a descriptive root.