βλασφημία
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Root
-bva
to come out, to issue forth; in the derived bvuma, to give voice, to assent
Blasphemia descends through phemi to the labial root of Shona bva, to issue forth
- Confidence
- 34/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- βλασφημίαGreek
The consensus position
Mainstream comparative linguistics derives βλασφημία from βλάσφημος, a compound of an unexplained first element βλασ- plus -φημος from φημί "I speak", ultimately Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- "to speak". Chantraine and others call the first element's origin unknown, and no relationship to Shona or any Bantu language is recognised.
The working behind this.
The full descent — 9 links from the attested form down to the root — the segment-by-segment correspondences, the phonological breakdown and the case for the derivation are behind an account.
An account opens 10 entries in full, free.
Elsewhere in the corpus
- Pelagiaparato spread out, to lay out flat, to clear a surface level
- Kérberoskerekato be smeared, streaked, marked with dirt; causative kerekedza, to streak or daub
- ἀποκτείνω-tekanato be cut off, be broken off, be severed, to snap
- μάχαιραmhakamatter, case, dispute, cause of quarrel; fault, blame, the grounds on which one is answerable
- ἀρχή-erekato load, to place on, to set up on the head or shoulder; to install, to set in position
- Theosmutsakindness, favour, mercy