ὕδωρhydōr
Sign in to saveAncient Greek
Root
mvura
water, rain, liquid of any kind
Greek hydor descends from PIE wed, matched to Shona mvura
- Confidence
- 52/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- ὕδωρ (hýdōr)Ancient Greek
The consensus position
Ancient Greek hýdōr is inherited from the Proto-Indo-European heteroclitic noun *wódr̥ / *udén-, from the root *wed- 'wet', cognate with English water, Hittite wātar and Slavic voda. Shona mvura is held to continue Proto-Bantu *-bùdà 'rain', with no genetic relation to the Indo-European word.
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.
An account opens 10 entries in full, free.
Elsewhere in the corpus
- οὐρανόςmvurawater, rain, rainfall
- מַיִםmvurawater, rain
- 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