East <span class="searchmatch">Semitic</span>: Akkadian: 𒂟 (nūrum) West <span class="searchmatch">Semitic</span>: Central <span class="searchmatch">Semitic</span>: Arabic: نُور (<span class="searchmatch">nūr</span>, “light”), نَوَار (nawār) → Avar: нур (<span class="searchmatch">nur</span>) → Azerbaijani: <span class="searchmatch">nur</span> → Bashkir:...
hypothesis is that the word is a wanderwort in Asia, compare <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-<span class="searchmatch">Semitic</span> *<span class="searchmatch">nūr</span>- (“fire”) and <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-Sino-Tibetan *ku-ni(k) (“day; sun”) (Can this(+) etymology...