λόγοςlogos
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Root
ronga
to arrange, to order, to plan, to lay out in sequence (urongwa, that which has been set in order)
Logos descends from Shona ronga, to arrange, to set in order
- Confidence
- 72/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- λόγοςGreek
The consensus position
Mainstream comparative linguistics derives λόγος from the verb λέγω "gather, count, say", an o-grade thematic noun on Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- "to gather, collect", cognate with Latin legō and Gothic lisan. No relationship to Bantu is recognised, and Shona shoko is regarded as a translation equivalent introduced by nineteenth-century missionaries.
The working behind this.
The full descent — 8 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