κοιλίαkoilia
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Root
guvhu
navel, the knot or bulge at the centre of the belly
Koilia rests on *ḱewh₁-, to swell, matching Shona guvhu, navel
- Confidence
- 45/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- κοιλιά (koiliá)Modern Greek
The consensus position
Greek κοιλία is derived from κοῖλος 'hollow', inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- 'to swell', and is generally connected with Latin cavus; it is the source of English coeliac via Latin coeliacus.
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