πῦρpyr
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Root
-pfura
to forge metal by heating and beating; to shoot, to fire a weapon (mupfuri, blacksmith)
Greek pyr descends from Shona pfura, to forge in fire
- Confidence
- 67/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- πῦρGreek
The consensus position
Mainstream comparative linguistics derives πῦρ from Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥ (oblique *ph₂unés), a heteroclitic r/n-stem noun for inanimate fire, cognate with Hittite pahhur, Umbrian pir, Tocharian por and English fire. No relationship to Bantu or Shona is recognised, as Indo-European and Niger-Congo are held to be unrelated families.
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