> > But BTW whenever I find an article on unusual comparisons, it

seems

> > for some reason *k-r- "turn, round, circle, sphere, head" and *k-

r-

> n-
> > "horn" are there, whatever the reason is.
> >
> Shevoroshkin (ed.)
> Nostratic, Dene-Caucasian, Austric and Amerind
>
>
> Orël & Stolbova:
> Cushitic, Chadic and Egyptian: Lexical relations
> Galla-Somali *garr-, Omotic *k'aR-, Egyptian k'r,ty "horn"
>
> John Bengtson
> Ainu kirau, Proto-Miao-Yao *klo(n,) ~ *kyo(n,) "horn"
>
> Aikhenvald-Angenot & Angenot
> The South-American Proto-Ge and the old world
> 6. Proto-Nostratic *koyHV (PIE, PU), Proto-Ge *k& "bark, skin",

Prot-

> Uto-Aztec *ko "skin"

9. Proto-Nostratic *ku¨y,nA "knee" (PIE, PU, PD), Proto-Sino-
Caucasian *HgVNV "knee", Proto-Ge *ko~n "knee"

> 10. Proto-Nostratic K.ErV "head, horn" (PAA, PIE, PU, PK), Proto-

Sino-

> Caucasian *qwVrHV "head, horn"; Proto-Mon-Khmer *kVy "head, horn",
> Proto-Ge *krã(,n) "head, horn"
>
>

And as a comment to the Basque - Dravidian "cry"
7. Proto-Nostratic *k.erya¨ "to cry, to call" (PAA, PK, PU, PD. PA),
Proto-Austrinesian *qeren, "to moan, to roar", Proto-Ge *k&(r) "to
cry, to call".
The latter may be connected in a semantically obvious way to "bull"
and "horn" (also as a musical instrument).

> > Torsten