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Akkadian
ḳurḳurû - blood soup
(CAD Ḳ 319, AHw. 930.)
AHw. 930: ‘eine Suppe (?)’.
Can it be a reduplication of the root
*ḳry
‘to have bodily effusion’ with a specific meaning shift from ‘blood effusion’?