kornerupine - a mineral

koshare - Keres a Pueblo Indian closn society, whose members iminitate ancestral spirits in ceremonies involving rain.

krakowiak - A Polish group folk dance


Krausen Wort
A small quantity of sweet, unfermented wort added to finished beer. This wort
ferments to produce natural carbonation.

kugel
n.
5Yidd kugl MHG kugel, ball6 a crusty baked pudding made as of potatoes or noodles
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kulak
n.
5Russ, lit., fist, hence, tightwad ?6 a well-to-do peasant farmer in Russia who profited from the labor of poor peasants and opposed the Soviet collectivization of the land

kümmel
n.
5Ger, caraway OHG kumil, kumin L cuminum: see CUMIN6 a colorless liqueur flavored with caraway seeds, anise, cumin, etc.

kylin ['ki?'l?n]
noun (in Chinese art) a mythical animal of composite form
[ETYMOLOGY: 19th Century: from Chinese ch'i-lin, literally:
male-female]

kyphosis - anterior curvature of dorsal spine, = hunchback

kornerupine=a porcupine with kyphosis

krakowiak

Wouldn't that pertain to anything from Krakow?

Chopin wrote a Rondo for piano and orchestra which is subtitled "Krakowiak."

I had a boss once whose last name was Krakowiak and it always made me think of the Chopin piece.

krakowiak - polish folk dance from cracow, in live tempo (i'm totally not familiar with music vocabulary. hope you know what i mean..), measure for 2/4, with syncopic (?? i didn't find a word..) rhythm.
introduced to artistic music by chopin, kurpiñski, paderewski...

but krakowiak is also an inhabitant of cracow (me for example :)). exactly: krakowiak is a man, krakowianka - a woman.

and i thougt "wort" was the interesting half--
it has an IE root, meaning root and its found in plant names like spiderwort, St JohnsWort, and the root word has branched off.. literly since one of its defintions is Branch! i had copied some stuff from Bartleby's, but it got corrupted when i saved it..maybe i'll root around some more.. since it took some radical turns as move around from language to language..

The Indonesian for carrot is wortel, which I would be willing to lay down ready money to bet is related to whatever the Dutch is. And what about manglewurzels, do they fit in somewhere?

Bingley

Yes, My Dear Mr. Bingley, directly to the to the root meaning of the word..(wrad)which meant branch/root-- licorice too, --but wortel itself is not mentioned. manglewurzels are-- and i don't think i need a degree in language to confirm that wortel is related to wort or wurzel-since carrots are a root vegetable
Wort came into english via the german, wyrt, but it is thought even the word rhizome, is related.. (coming to english from a greek word that is from the original IE root.

other words that come from the same root word include:
radish,
licorice
rutabaga
radical
radicle
radish
radix
deracinate
eradicate
irradiclable
ramose
ramus
ramify
rhizome
I'll confess, i don't know the meaning of all those words!

an IE root, meaning root

The wort appearing in plant names and the wort used to make beer are indeed related and the ME and OE words are identical in spelling. Beyond that it seems as though they may be from separate paths from the same IE root:
http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE592.html