בֹּקֶרboqer
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Root
bakura
to split open, prise apart, break open (variant bakuka, to come apart)
Boqer descends from Shona bakura, to split open, morning being split darkness
- Confidence
- 72/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- בֹּקֶר (boqer)Hebrew
The consensus position
Mainstream Semitic philology treats בֹּקֶר as an inherited Hebrew qatl/qutl segholate from the root b-q-r, cognate with Arabic bukrah "dawn" and probably related to Arabic baqara "to split open", with no connection of any kind to Bantu languages. Shona and Hebrew are held to be unrelated families, so no genetic derivation between them is entertained.
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