▪ ṢWR_1 ‘…’ ↗… ▪ ṢWR_2 ‘…’ ↗…♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘to cause to incline or lean towards, to incline to; to shape, form, fashion, to represent; sculpture, picture; to imagine, conceive; to cut into pieces; to disperse; to prepare; trumpet’. – ṣur-hunna is classified under this root, although some philologists and commentators derive it from the root ṢYR and still others derive it from ṢRY.
▪ … ▪ … ▪ Kogan2011: (ṣawr ‘side of the neck; bank of a river’) an alternative term for ‘neck’ for which protSem *ṣawar‑ can be reconstructed. The basic Sem term for ‘neck’, protSem *kišād‑, does not seem to have left reflexes in Ar. – Cf. also ↗ʕunq, √ʕNQ. ▪ …