βροντήbrontē
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Root
bvuma
to roar, rumble, boom; to hum; and hence to assent, to say yes
Greek brontē, thunder, from Shona bvuma, to roar and rumble
- Confidence
- 61/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- βροντήGreek
The consensus position
Mainstream comparative linguistics derives βροντή from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrem- 'to hum, roar' via a pre-form *bromtā with -mt- assimilating to -nt-, alongside βρέμω and βρόμος, with cognates in Latin fremō, Old English breman and Sanskrit bhramara-. Beekes flags the irregular formation and considers the word possibly Pre-Greek or reshaped by substrate influence; no relation to Bantu is recognised.
The working behind this.
The full descent — 7 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.
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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
- βλασφημία-bvato come out, to issue forth; in the derived bvuma, to give voice, to assent
- Theosmutsakindness, favour, mercy