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√WQR
▪ WQR_1 ‘to break, fracture, crack (esp. a bone)’ ↗waqara
▪ WQR_2 ‘cavity, hollow’ ↗waqr
▪ WQR_3 ‘heavy load, burden’ ↗wiqr, ‘grave, sedate, dignified’ ↗waqūr
▪ WQR_4 ‘…’ ↗… ♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘a load; solemnity, respect, dignity; to be heavily pregnant; to show respect; to be hard of hearing; to exact, to take; to settle down, to be inactive, to stay at home’
▪ Bergsträsser1928 identified 2 meanings of the root in Sem: 1) ‘valuable, precious, dear’ and 2) ‘heavy’. These form complex WQR_3 [v3]. But are also [v1] and [v2] related to [v3], or among each other?
▪ Bergsträsser1928: (waqur ‘grave, sedate, dignified’) Akk waqru, Hbr yāqār ‘rare, expensive, precious, valuable, dear’; Aram ʔīqar nēqar ‘be heavy’; SAr wqr ‘honour’. The Sem root has two meanings: ‘1. valuable, precious, dear; 2. heavy’
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