אוֹרor
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Root
Hwira
to shine, to be bright, to glow (extended hwirira, to gleam; compare hwerera, to clear up)
Hebrew or descends from Proto-Semitic ʔ-w-r, matched by Shona hwira, to shine
- Confidence
- 72/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- אוֹרHebrew
The consensus position
Mainstream comparative linguistics derives Hebrew אוֹר from Proto-Semitic *ʔ-w-r "to be light, to shine", with cognates in Ugaritic, Aramaic and Arabic, and treats Hebrew as Northwest Semitic with no genetic or contact relation to Bantu languages such as Shona.
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
- בראbara (kubara)to beget, to bring forth, to give birth; in Karanga and Ndau craft use also to pare or hollow out
- Edenhudendeabundance, plenty, superfluity; from -dende, gourd or large calabash
- Nekevahnengovenotch, grooved cut; one bearing a notched or bored thing (variant nhengove)
- ZakhárZikirato know thoroughly, to recognise, to be acquainted with, to hold in mind (applicative of -zika / -ziva, to know)
- Pesachpesato pass, to pass by, to go past, to swerve aside; kupesana, to pass one another without meeting
- Megiddogudurato knock off, to break off, to dislodge a piece