μόνοςmonos
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Root
mwana
child, offspring, the young of anything; the small one
Greek monos traced through PIE *mon- to Shona mwana, the small one
- Confidence
- 30/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- μόνοςAncient Greek
The consensus position
Mainstream scholarship derives μόνος from Proto-Greek *mónwos, often linked to PIE *men- small, thin, though Beekes and others regard the deeper etymology as uncertain. No connection to Bantu languages 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