לבןlaven
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Root
rabvu
greyish-white, whitish, pale, ash-coloured, said of a hide or a dun-coated beast
Hebrew laban descends from Shona rabvu, the pale ash colour
- Confidence
- 64/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- לָבָן (lāḇān)Hebrew
The consensus position
Mainstream comparative Semitics derives Hebrew לָבָן from a securely reconstructed Proto-Semitic root *l-b-n "be white", with cognates in Akkadian labānu, Ugaritic and Phoenician lbn, Aramaic lebnā and Arabic laban, and no genetic relation to Bantu is recognised.
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
- 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