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▪ kirāʔ is the vn. of a (now obsol.) vb. I, *karà, with prob. the same sense as the L- and *Š-stems (kārà and ʔakrà) that are still in use. Accord. to DRS #KRY-1, this value is well attested in Sem (Ar, modSAr, Te Amh; Hbr with the slightly differing meaning ‘to buy, trade, run a business’). While the EthSem forms may be from Ar, the modSAr ones look rather genuine. It seems quite safe therefore to assume a deeper (WSem?) dimension and a relatively old age of this value.
▪ Yet, within the semantic spectrum attached to ↗KRY, the value ‘to rent, lease, let, let out, etc.’ can hardly be connected to any of the other values – certainly not to ‘sleep, slumber’ (↗¹kariya), nor to ‘thinness of the shank; to have thin and parted legs’ (↗^†KRY_5) or to ‘decrease, dwindle, diminish, lessen’ (↗^†KRY_7). It looks conceivable, though, to assume a relation betw. ‘to rent, etc.’ and ‘to prolong, postpone’ (↗^†KRY_8) if we, for instance, think of leasing, letting out, etc., as a kind of prolongation of the right to use s.th.
▪ If the latter should indeed be related, then one may speculate even a bit farther and think that ‘to prolong, postpone’ possibly has s.th. to do with the idea of *‘collecting, assembling, piling up, heaping up’, reflexes of which are found in ↗kuraẗ ‘globe, sphere, ball’, ↗kur(r)āriyyaẗ ‘spool, bobbin, reel | ball (of string, wool etc.)’, and others. Klein1987 even thinks that »the orig. meaning of the base KRY was *‘to make round’«. If this should be valid, we would get a hypothetical development along the line *‘to make round > to collect, pile\heap up > to delay, postpone > to rent, hire, lease’. But this sounds highly speculative (and perh. also little likely…).
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▪ DRS #KRY-1 Hbr *kārāʰ ‘acheter, marchander, traiter une affaire, négocier’, Ar kārā ‘louer, donner à loyer’, Mhr škēri, Ḥrs škēr, Śḥr škereʔ ‘louer, employer’, Te təkārạ̄, Amh (tä)kärrayä ‘louer’. -2-6 […].
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▪ See above, section CONC.
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►kārà, vb. III, and ʔakrà, vb. IV, to rent, lease, let, let out, farm out, hire out (s.th. to s.o.): L- and *Š-stem, assoc. and caus., respectively
►ĭktarà, vb. VIII, and ĭstakrà, vb. X, 1a to rent, hire (s.th.); b to lease, take on ease (s.th.), take a lease (of s.th.); 2 to hire, employ, engage (s.o.), engage the labor or services (‑h of s.o.): Gt- and *Št-stem, respectively, both self-ref.
►ʔikrāʔ, n., 1a renting, rent; b leasing, letting on lease, farming out: vn. IV
►ĭktirāʔ, n., 1a renting, rent; b leasing, taking on lease; 2 hiring: vn. VIII
►mukāriⁿ, pl. -ūn, n., 1 hirer (esp. one of horses, donkeys, mules, etc.); 2 donkey driver, muleteer: PA III
►mukriⁿ, n., 1 hirer, lessor; 2 landlord: PA IV
►mukràⁿ, adj., rented, let, hired out, let on lease: PP IV
►muktariⁿ, pl. -ūn, n., and mustakriⁿ, pl. -ūn, n., renter, tenant, lessee: PA VIII | muktariⁿ ṯāniⁿ, subtenant, sublessee

For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗kariya, ↗karā\à (√KRW/Y), and ↗karrī, as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗KRY. – Cf. also ↗KRː (KRR), ↗KRW, and ↗KRW/Y.

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