Semitic Etymological Database
Contra LSyr. 695, PCS *ḳVry-at-/*ḳar-t- ‘town’ is hardly related to Akk. ḳarītu ‘storeroom, granary’, which both AHw. 903 and HALOT 1091 connect instead with Hbr. ḳōrā ‘beam’ (Kogan 2015:214).