▪ Dolgopolsky2012#1131: Nostr *
ḳär˅ (
ḳa) (= *
ḳärU (
ḳa)?) ‘small stone’ > AfrAs: Cush: ECush: pOr {Bl.} *
ḳirr‑ ‘gravel, small stone’ > Or
č̣írr-ačča {Grg.} ‘coarse sand’, {Bl.} ‘small stone(s)’, Kns
qírr-itta ‘small stone’,
qírr-a ‘gravel’ || Kauk: GZ *
ḳurḳa‑ > G
ḳurḳa - ‘stone of a fruit’, Lz
ḳurḳa id., ‘grain’ || IndoEur: NaIE *
k̑orkā ‘gravel’ > OInd
śarkarā f. ‘grit, pebbles, gravel’, OInd Ep
śarkara > Pali
sakkharā -, Prkr
sakara ‑, Hindi
sakkar ‘granulated sugar’ (an Indo-Aryan source ↗Grk
sákkhar (
on), NPer
šä(k)kär, Ar
sukkar - ‘sugar’, and the words for ‘sugar’ in the European languages [Ital
zucchero, nHG
Zucker, Fr
sucre, NEngl
sugar, Russ
saxar, etc.]) ‖ Grk
krókē,
krokálai ‘abgerundeter Kieselstein am Meeresufer’ || Drav *
kar˅c̉‑ ({ϑGS} *
g‑) ‘gravel’ > Kn
garasu,
garusu, Tl
garusu id., Tu
karṅkallu id., ‘hard sand’.
▪ Unrelated to other items of the root ↗√
SKR.