ش ج ر

Etymology
The meanings of piercing, a fissure, forcing open, hence chin or mouth corner, are probably metathetical to.

The meaning of a tree is likely generalized from the meaning of “fig tree” and via from, see the material of.

Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou opts for an Aramaic borrowing due the consonant correspondence with 🇨🇬, connecting via the ideas of “coming forth” of trees, ultimately seeing the root as derived from the cognate of “to drag forth” plus causative prefix, which seems to not easily have happened, not only because that suffix is  since 🇨🇬. Some meanings “to come forth”, as “to happen”, are clearly figuratively denominal from the “trees” noun moreover. The Hebrew word can well be from the idea of a litter in a basket.

In a primitive pre-metallic time, a “bracelet”, what 🇨🇬 / and thence  means, was also nothing else than wickerwork. About the same time one may have developed figurative meanings of “quarrels”, “brawls”, “scrimmages” and the like, people figurative becoming entangled, as the Romans said.

Root

 * 1) related to intricacy

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