κόσμοςkosmos
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Root
chenesa
to make clean, to make white, to purify, to make bright
Kosmos traced through PIE ḱens to Shona chenesa, to make bright
- Confidence
- 30/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- κόσμος (kósmos)Ancient Greek
The consensus position
Mainstream comparative linguistics holds that κόσμος has no secure etymology; a derivation from PIE *ḱens- 'proclaim' and a link to κέκασμαι 'excel, be adorned' have both been proposed, and Beekes allows a Pre-Greek origin.
The working behind this.
The full descent — 5 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