I do not feel qualified to discuss the validity of Proto-Dravidian or Proto-Afroasiatic reconstructions. I can offer comments mainly on IE forms. Other things being equal, one would expect IE data to be of superior quality. Unfortunately, there is no really usable "PIE dictionary" for informed amateurs; root inventories like Pokorny's are of limited value -- they don't reflect the current state of PIE studies, and contain a high proportion of questionable reconstructions, inaccuracies and patently false data. Cross-family comparisons often draw from doubtful or outdated sources and indiscriminately mix figments with reliable forms. Your list is no exception, I'm afraid. Now as for details:
 
(1) Reflexes of PIE *g^enh1-/*g^onh1-/*g^nh1- (this is the correct form) 'beget' are not attested with the meaning 'make love'. PIE had other specialised terms for the latter. Sumerian has a number of terms for 'child', the most important of them being <dumu>. What is your **gin-na based on? The Sumerian verb corresponding semantically to PIE *g^enh1- (meaning 'bear, give birth, beget, fashion, create', etc.) is <tud> -- no etymological relation.
 
(2) The PIE words for 'crane' are considered to be deverbal, from *gerh2- (~ *grah2-) 'make a loud cry'. Similar terms for noisy birds are very common (Baltic/Slavic *k^orh2-k-ah2 'magpie', various names for 'crow' or 'raven'), so the 'crane' word is probably of imitative origin. Such items should be used with great care, if at all, in distant comparison.
 
(3) [Why separate two homophonous and semantically overlapping etyma?] PIE has a good number of roots meaning approximately 'turn', 'twist' or 'plait', 'weave', but *ger- is not particularly conspicuous among them. In fact, I doubt if it can be regarded as authentic. What particular forms justify this reconstruction?
 
(4) Very loose semantics, plus a questionable equation within IE. Gk. kephale: matches Toch. A s'pa:l formally and semantically, but the Germanic 'gable' word may be unrelated.
 
(5) PIE has *gerbH- 'carve, notch' plus several "scratchy" roots like *skrebH-, all of them no doubt onomatopoeic and thus of little use in distant comparison. As for <zrák>, why cite only a Czech word if the root in question is found everywhere in Slavic and a precise reconstruction is possible? The original meaning of the word is 'sight' (the semantic development as in German Gesicht), derived from the Slavic verb *zIr-E-ti 'look, see; appear, be visible', from *g^Her- 'shine' (Slavic *zorja 'light in the sky'). I think you lump together unrelated items here.
 
Piotr
 
 
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Fine. Here we go:
 
1)

(275)PN *k?en^w- "to have intercourse, to beget"

 PIE (1.) *g^en-/*g^on/*g^N "to beget";

PAA *kan- "to beget" Arabic in kanaba "to stow a thing in a bag", kanara "to press a thing in a bag, to stick a spear"; in Egyptian kn(-)s "pubic region";

PD *ken.- "to have sexual intercourse";

S **gin-na (n.) "child"

(source: PL *K?E-NO-)

 

2)

(290)PN *k?or- "crane" 

PIE *ger/or- /*gR- "crane";

AA *kar- "crane";

PU *korka- "crane"(?; or karka);

PD *korku- "crane"

(source: PL *K?O-RHA)

 

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(293) PN *k?or^y- "to plait" 

PIE *ger-/*gor-/*gR- "to plait, to tie together (by plaiting)"; "basket" with -bh- extension;

PAA *kar- "to (re)turn";

PU *kori, "basket"(limited distribution); *kori-, "to plait" (based on Finnic-Samic *kuri- "to stitch, tie together");

S gur, (n.) "basket"; "to wind, to turn" (probably phonetic only for "to wind, to turn"; see 239);

(source: PL *K?O-RE)

 

3) 

(239)PN *k?or^y</sub>- "to (re)turn" 

PIE *ger-/*gor-/*gR- "to turn, to wind";

PAA *kar- "to (re)turn"; Egyptian T3(w) [bar-t], "don a garment" [ = "to wrap (repeatedly)"]; T3, "pellet"; s-T3, "roller for moving a ship, dung (fecal cylinder)";

PA *göre, "to turn, to twist, to wind, to wrap"; *guri- "wide, broad, thick";

S gur, "to wind, to turn" ("basket"; probably phonetic only; see 293); better gur4, "to turn, to roll over"; gur2, "ring"; gur, "hefty"; gur4, gur13, gur14 "thick; to be or make thick"

(source: PL *K?O-RHE)

 

4)

(219)PN *k?xap?f^w- "top" 

PIE * ghe/obh-(el-), "gable, head";

PAA *gab- probably in Arabic jabba, "to overcome"; in Egyptian Hb, "to triumph";

S *kap, "to overpower";

(source: PL *K?XA-P?FO)

 

5)

(223)PN *k?xer^y- "to make/be bare (by scraping)" 

PIE * g^her-/*g^hor-, "to scratch, to engrave, to scrape"; * g^her-/*g^hor-, "(n.) face" in Czech zra-k;

PAA *gar- "to make bare by scraping"; Arabic in jarjara "to drag"; in jarasha "to throw off slough (snake)"; in ?ajraza "to be barren"; in jarana "to grind"; injarada "to strip a branch of leaves"; in Egyptian H3, "to run aground"; in H3-y, "to be naked"; in s-H3-j, "to strip";

PD *ci:r- (possibly also ker-) "to scratch";

PA in *k'ìr(-)ga- "to scrape, to file";

S *kir(i)3, "to pinch off (better: "to scratch/scrape off[?]")"; *kir(i)4, "nose (better "**face")"

(source: PL *K?XE-RE)

 

Pat