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▪ Kogan2011: from protSem *
wrḳ ‘yellow-green’, one of the four basic colours in the protSem colour spectrum
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(see also Ar ↗LBN and BYḌ for ‘white’, ↗ẒLM and SWD for ‘black’, ↗ʔDM and ḤMR for ‘red’). However, the main Ar designation of ‘green’ is ↗
ʔaḫḍarᵘ (perh. related to Hbr
ḥāṣīr ‘grass; leek’).
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