▪ WRː (WRR)_1 ‘to whirr, produce a humming or buzzing sound; to revolve, move around quickly’: EgAr ↗warrᵃ (i, warr) – BadawiHinds1986
Other values, now obsolete, include (Hava1899):
▪ †WRː (WRR)_2 ‘haunch-bone’: †warr(aẗ)
▪ †WRː (WRR)_3 ‘ditch in the earth’: †warraẗ
▪ †WRː (WRR)_4 ‘to throw, reject’: SyrAr †warrᵃ (u, warr)
▪ [v1] : The notions of ‘whirring, producing a humming or buzzing sound’ and ‘revolving, moving around quickly’ are grouped together as basically one value by DRS 7 (1997) under the reduplicated root #WRWR-2 (see below, section COGN), associated also with the ↗warwār bird (‘bee-eater’) and ‘speaking quickly\volubly’ (↗†WRWR_3 †warwara), as though the vb.s for ‘whirring, humming, buzzing’ and ‘moving around quickly’ were coined with the bee-eater bird in mind (or the warwār as *‘the humming\buzzing one, quickly moving’). Moreover, the authors of DRS ask (cf. the « ? » before #2) whether these notions may, or may not, be related to ‘looking intensely\fixedly’ (↗†WRWR_4 †warwara (’l-naẓarᵃ)) and ‘to wave menacingly with one’s fingers, menace, terrify’ (grouped under #WRWR-1). All these items seem to be inner-Ar developments (but very widespread there), akin to other Sem perh. only via their dependence on warwār. – Cf., however, Ehret1995 #972 who thinks Ar warwar ‘to speak fast’ has cognates outside Sem in Cush, Chad, and Omot languages and therefore posits AfrAs *-war-/-wir- ‘to call out’ as a common ancestor.
▪ †[v2] : In DRS, Ar †warr(aẗ) ‘haunch-bone’ is without cognates in Sem. The authors note that some ClassAr dictionaries seem to regard it as « synonyme » (and shortened variant?) of ↗wark ‘id.’. – In contrast, MilitarevKogan2000 (SED I) #10 give some Gur items for ‘leg’ as cognates and consider a connection of †warr with the semantic complex of ‘back, behind, etc.’ (↗warāʔ, < Sem *ʔ˅rāw-, *w˅rāʔ- ‘back’ < AfrAs *ʔ/wiray/w- ‘back’), with an assumed shift of meaning *‘back > thigh > leg’.
▪ †[v3] †warraẗ ‘ditch in the earth’: no cognates in Sem, but according to OrelStolbova1994 perh. outside (WCh, CCh); the authors reconstruct Sem *warr‑ ‘pit’, WCh *wur‑ ‘pit, furrow’, and CCh *wur‑ (wure) ‘hole’, all from a hypothetical AfrAs *wur‑ ‘pit, hole’.
▪ †[v4] SyrAr †warrᵃ (u, warr) ‘to throw, reject’: The notion of ‘throwing, casting’ used to be connected to ‘leading, guiding > showing, teaching’ and thus also to Hbr tōrāhʰ (> Ar ↗tawrāẗ), cf., e.g., Huehnergard2011’s reconstruction of a protSem *√WRW ‘to lead, guide, cast, throw’; but this view has been contested, among others by the authors of DRS 7 (1997) who treat it as a distinct value, though withoug clear etymology: under #WRR-7, they list a EAr warrᵃ ‘jeter de haut’, while EAr warra ‘jeter, rejeter’, warwar ‘jeter, lancer’ is dealt with s.r. #WRW~WRR-1 (cognates in Ug, Hbr, ?Syr, and EthSem) ; for ‘showing’ etc., see ↗²warrà and ↗tawrāẗ (= ↗WRY_4-5). Given that ‘throwing, casting’ sometimes also takes the meaning of ‘shooting’, there is some probability that the extra-Sem (Eg, Cush, Chad) forms quoted in DRS are valid cognates.
▪ See above, section CONC.
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