▪ The sound of a ‘rattle in the throat’ is not only expressed by ¹
karra but also by the reduplicated stem ↗²
karkara (also ‘to rumble’, said of the stomach, and ‘to murmur’, said of running water); as onomatopoetic imitations of a certain type of sounds, ¹
karra and ²
karkara are also close to ↗
ǧarǧara ‘to gargle, rumble, clatter’ and ↗
ġarġara ‘to gargle, gurgle, simmer, bubble’. With such meanings, the root is attested in Ar and EthSem (see
DRS #KRR-9) and classified by Leslau among roots expressing « la voix ».
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▪ Is this value somehow related to that of ↗KRː (KRR)_2 ‘returning, repetition’, given the repetitive notion in the vibrations of rattling, rumbling, murmuring, etc.?
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