*kw-r- “work”
PMA kara “to act, work” Sanskrit, also karma “action, deed, work, fate” karana “factor, cause” Sanskrit IENH 331 : *kw[h][u|o]r- “to twist or twine together, tie together, bind, fasten” Proto-Nostratic > *kw[h](e|o)r- “to do, make, build” Proto-IndoEuropean *kw[h][a|ë]r- “to twist or twine together, tie together, bind, fasten” Proto-AfroAsiatic *kura- “to twist or twine together, tie together, bind, fasten” Proto-Uralic kur4 “to tie, bind” Sumerian EIEC *kwer- “do, make, build” Proto-IndoEuropean cruth “form” Old Irish pryd “form, time” Welsh paraf “work, shape” Welsh kuriù “make, build, create” Lithuanian ke:ras “magician” Lithuanian keréti “bewitch, enchant, charm” Lithuanian kruchîjî “smith” Old Church Slavonian cháry “magic” Russian charovátî “bewitch, enchant, charm” Russian kërënaoiti “does, makes” Avestan karóti / krnóti “does, makes, performs; executes; builds” Sanskrit EHWL car, cer “to build, make” Etruscan PMA kalang “work” Yaugulam gere- “work” Pulabu daura- “work” Arosi, Lau kala- “to do roughly, hastily” Kwaio kara “plan, conspiracy” Kwaio kalai- “acting done in dance performances” Kwaio kalai- “an enterprise or policy”, fig. from kalai “to plan” Hawai'i galue- “to work” Samoa, Nanumea galue-ga “work, employment” Samoa galuea'iina “action” Samoa galaw- “action, movement” Tagalog galo- “action” Pampanga gula- “action” Lau karatnan “outcome, consequence, result” Tagalog k-in-artnan- “destiny, fate, result” Tagalog (from addition of infix -in, to kara-tnan) kulana “rank, station, position” Hawai'i karma, karawa, etc. “one of three souls, actuating soul of body” Ilocano kalma, kalkalma- “actuating soul of three in body” Tinguian galing “source, origin, cause” Tagalog kalana “source” as in la kalana ola “the sun, the source of life” Hawai'i gerin- “root” Gog goren- “root” Motlav gula- “cause” Lau kula- “source, container” Hawai'i kuleana- “cause, justification, right, title, function, etc” Hawai'i tara- “cause” Arosi Back