δακρύωdakryo
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Root
dakara
to be overjoyed, to be deeply glad, emotion welling up
Greek dakryo traced to Shona dakara, overwhelming joy that brings tears
- Confidence
- 44/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- δακρύωAncient Greek
The consensus position
Mainstream comparative linguistics derives δακρύω as a denominative verb from δάκρυ, tear, inherited from Proto-Indo-European *dáḱru, cognate with Latin lacrima, Gothic tagr and English tear; the relation to the dentalless variant *h₂éḱru is unresolved.
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
- Dakaraidakarabe happy, rejoice, be delighted, be content
- 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