kêr

knife, cut, shear

From Avestan kərət- "knife",

Proto-Indo-European root meaning ker- "to cut",

Sanskrit krnati "hurts, wounds, kills," krntati "cuts",
Hittite karsh- "to cut off",
Luwian kwar- "to cut", "karš-(ti)" "to cut, severe",
Greek keirein "to cut, shear",
Latin curtus "short," caro "flesh",
Lithuanian skiriu, skirti "to separate",
Old English sceran, scieran "to cleave, hew, cut with a sharp instrument",
Old Irish scaraim "I separate",
Welsh ysgar "to separate," ysgyr "fragment".

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