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√ṮWR
▪ ṮWR_1 ‘bull; (astron.) Taurus’ ↗ ṯawr
▪ ṮWR_2 ‘to rise; to be shaken, be moved (soul), be roused (anger), be stirred (quarrel), be kindled (war)’ ↗ ṯāra Other values, now obsolete, include:
▪ ṮWR_3 ‘to investigate, inquire after s.th.’: †ʔaṯāra ♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘bull, to stir, to raise, to excite, to rise, to swirl up; to agitate, to rebel, to rage; to break up, to plough; to chase, to dig up, to look into’
▪ ṮWR_1 : from Sem *ṯawr- (? < AfrAs *čaw˅r‑ / *č˅r‑)‘bull’
▪ ṮWR_2 : from ṮWR_1 (fig. use: *‘to "revolt", break out like a bull’?
▪ ṮWR_3 : caus. of ṮWR_2 (*‘to stir in the dust, till the ground and thereby investigate the soil’) or belonging to another Sem root? (Cf. Hbr tūr ‘to seek out, spy out, explore’, Ar ʔatāra ‘to seek out, spy out, explore’, tāraẗ ‘period, succession’).
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