γῆgē
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Root
dhaka
mud, wet clay, earth used for building
Greek ge descends from Shona dhaka, the earth as worked clay
- Confidence
- 62/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- γῆAncient Greek
The consensus position
Mainstream comparative linguistics treats Ancient Greek γῆ (beside γαῖα, Doric γᾶ) as of uncertain origin, with Beekes and others assigning it to the Pre-Greek substrate; it is not derivable from PIE *dʰéǵʰōm, whose regular Greek reflex is χθών. No connection to Bantu is recognised.
The working behind this.
The full descent — 6 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