conc▪ While it might seem natural, from an inner-Ar perspective, to link miḥrāk ʻpoker, fire iron’ to the notion of ‘to move, stir’ (↗ḥarakaẗ), as *‘instrument with which to stir the fire’, a caveat is in place in light of the Ug Hbr Aram cognates, which have ‘fire, to burn, roast’ as their basic idea, not ‘to move, stir’. For further discussion, see root entry ↗√ḤRK.
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