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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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ʔiksīr إكْسير 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ʔKSR , KSR 
n. 
elixir – WehrCowan1979. 
Doubtful etymology, most probably from a Grk word. The Arabic term gave our word elixir. 
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▪ Rolland2014: »Peut-être du grec ξηρίον [xēríon] ‘poudre siccative que l’on met sur les blessures’, dérivé de ξηρός [xērós] ‘sec’, d’étymologie obscure (Chantraine). Nişanyan propose un autre étymon grec, ἐξαίρεσις [eksaíresis] ‘extraction’, dérivé de αἱρέω [airéō] ‘prendre, enlever, saisir’, sans étymologie établie.«
▪ Hassan1986 suggested an origin in the Chinese term for ‘Cosmic soul’.1 Highly doubtful! 
▪ EtymOnline: elixir, »mC13, from mLat elixir ‘philosopher’s stone’, believed by alchemists to transmute baser metals into gold and/or to cure diseases and prolong life, from Arabic al-iksīr ‘the philosopher’s stone’, probably from lGrk xerion ‘powder for drying wounds’, from xeros ‘dry’ […]. Later in medical use for ‘a tincture with more than one base’. General sense of ‘strong tonic’ is 1590 s; used for quack medicines from at least 1630 s.« 
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ʔKL أكل 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ʔKL 
“root” 
▪ ʔKL_1 ‘to eat’ ↗ʔakala
▪ ʔKL_2 ‘…’ ↗…

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘food; yield; morsel; to eat, to consume, to devour; to erode; to become enraged’ 
▪ ʔKL_1 : (Kogan2015 Sw#23:) from protSem *ʔkl ‘to eat’ (HALOT 46). Passim except EthSem and modSAr.
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