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▪ The notions of [v1] ‘whirring, producing a humming or buzzing sound’ and [v2] ‘revolving, moving around quickly’ are grouped together as basically one value by DRS 7 (1997) under the reduplicated root #WRWR-2 (see below, section COGN), associated also with the ↗warwār bird (‘bee-eater’) and ‘speaking quickly\volubly’ (↗^†WRWR_3 ^†warwara), as though the vb.s for ‘whirring, humming, buzzing’ and ‘moving around quickly’ were coined with the bee-eater bird in mind (or the warwār as *‘the humming\buzzing one, quickly moving’?). Moreover, the authors of DRS ask (cf. the « ? » before #2) whether these notions may, or may not, be related to ‘looking intensely\fixedly’ (↗^†WRWR_4 ^†warwara (’l-naẓarᵃ)) and ‘to wave menacingly with one’s fingers, menace, terrify’ (grouped under #WRWR-1). All these items seem to be inner-Ar developments (but very widespread there), akin to other Sem perh. only via their dependence (if valid) on warwār. – Cf., however, Ehret1995 #972 who thinks Ar warwar ‘to speak fast’ has cognates outside Sem in Cush, Chad, and Omot languages and therefore posits AfrAs *-war-/-wir- ‘to call out’ as a common ancestor.
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▪ DRS 7 (1997) #WRWR-1 Ar warwara, warra ‘regarder intensément’, warwarī ‘qui a la vue faible’, EAr warwar ‘être brillante et attirer le regard (couleur)’, SudAr warwar ‘agiter les doigts pour menacer, menacer, réprimander’; Malt werwer ‘terrifier’.¹ - ?2 Ar warwara ‘parler vite’, SudAr warr (fi l-kalām) ‘parler vite’, EAr ‘parler vite pour ne rien dire, jaser’, Malt werwer ‘jacasser, jaser’; – MġrAr warwar ‘faire rru en roulant (voiture, boule)’, EAr waṛwaṛ ‘faire wör wör comme l’oiseau waṛwāṛ’, warwār ‘guêpier (oiseau)’, ? wirwir ‘revolver’ ; EgAr warr ‘bourdonner; tournoyer’. – ? Amh täwärawwärä ‘se railler mutuellement, échanger des pointes’.² -3-8 [...].
▪ ? Cf. also Ehret1995 #972 AfrAs *-war-/-wir- ‘to call out’: (Sem) Ar warwar ‘to speak fast’ (redupl. stem as intens.), protCush *war‑ ‘to call out; news, report’, (Chad) Ng wə̀rd‑ ‘to cry out’ (stem + dur. *‑d), (Omot) Gonga *wor‑ ‘news’ (Mocha wóro).
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1. Pour les formes signifiant ‘jeter, lancer, percer’, v. s. ↗*WR-, ↗WRW~WRY, ↗WRW~WRR. 2. Outside Sem : note (Berb) Kab aweṛwəṛ.

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▪ See above, section CONC.

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For other values attached to the root, cf. root entry ↗WRː (WRR) ; see also the 2-cons. nucleus ↗*WR‑ as well as ↗WRʔ, ↗WRʕ, ↗WRWR and ↗WRY, with partly overlapping semantics.

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