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What in MSA is the value of form I now was that of form III in ClassAr: karaza meant ^†‘to stoop, bend down, crouch’ (WKAS), and kāraza was, literally, the action expressed in vb. I, directed towards some place or person (associative). It seems that form I lost its proper meaning in the course of time and “took over” from form III, especially after the latter had increasingly been used with the directional preposition ʔilà instead of a DO. Note, however, that DRS seems to distinguish karaza ^†‘to stoop, bend down, crouch’ from kāraza ‘to flee from [sic!] s.o. and hide’ etymologically (no reason given).

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▪ DRS 10 (2012)#KRZ–1 Ar karaza ‘s’incliner, se pencher, s’accroupir’. –4 Ar kāraza ‘fuir qn [sic!] et se cacher’.

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▪ DRS 10 (2012) lists the modern value ‘to hide, seek refuge in’ as a value that is distinct from ‘to stoop, bend down, crouch’. But there is no reason for not considering the former a derivation from the latter.
▪ Or is Pers gurez, goriz ‘flying; flight’ (from goriḫtan ‘to fly, flee, run away, escape’) involved here in any way?
▪ If not, then the modern value ‘to hide, seek refuge’ has to be regarded as a secondary value, developed from earlier ‘to stoop, bend down, crouch’.

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