ὄνομαonoma
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Root
nema
to point at, to point out, to indicate, to designate
Greek onoma descends from Shona nema, to point out, to designate
- Confidence
- 54/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- ὄνομαAncient Greek
The consensus position
Mainstream comparative linguistics derives ὄνομα from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ 'name', a root noun cognate with Latin nomen, Sanskrit nā́man-, Old English nama and Hittite lāman, with the Greek initial vowel reflecting a word-initial laryngeal. No relationship to Bantu is recognised.
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