בראbara
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Root
bara (kubara)
to beget, to bring forth, to give birth; in Karanga and Ndau craft use also to pare or hollow out
Hebrew bara descends from Shona bara, to bring forth, to pare out
- Confidence
- 76/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- ברא (bārā')Hebrew
The consensus position
Mainstream comparative Semitics treats ברא as inherited Hebrew from a Proto-Semitic root *b-r-ʾ, with cognates in Arabic baraʾa, Syriac brā and Sabaic barāʾ, and no relation to Bantu; Shona kubara is held to reflect Proto-Bantu *-bad-/*-byal- 'beget', an unrelated line.
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
- Megiddogudurato knock off, to break off, to dislodge a piece
- 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
- helilhariclay pot, earthenware vessel