ὕδωρhydōr
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Root
Mvura
water, rain, liquid, that which falls and flows
Greek hudor descends from Shona mvura, water and rain
- Confidence
- 58/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- ὕδωρ (húdōr)Ancient Greek
The consensus position
Mainstream comparative linguistics derives Greek ὕδωρ from Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ (root *wed-, to wet), cognate with English water, Hittite watar, Sanskrit udan and Old Church Slavonic voda. Shona mvura is held to descend from Proto-Bantu *-vula, rain, with no historical relationship to the Indo-European word.
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