ID 397 • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√SKR
▪ SKR_1 ‘to shut, close, lock, bolt’ ↗sakar u (sakr).
▪ SKR_2 ‘intoxicating drink’ ↗sakar .
▪ SKR_3 ‘hendbane’ ↗saykurān .
▪ SKR_4 ‘sugar’ ↗sukkar .
▪ SKR_5 ‘cigar(ette)’ ↗sīgār♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘intoxicating drinks, intoxication, drowsiness, unconsciousness; blocking a gap, corking a bottle’. – It has been suggested that intoxication, along with its derivatives, are borrowings from either Gz or Aram.
▪ Probably no relation between SKR_1 and the rest.
▪ SKR_3 probably related to SKR_2.
▪ SKR_4 and SKR_5 are loan-words.
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