מִגְדָּלmigdal
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Root
gadzira
to make, to build, to set up firmly, to put right
Migdal descends from Shona gadzira, to build, to raise up firmly
- Confidence
- 62/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- מִגְדָּל (migdal)Hebrew
The consensus position
Mainstream comparative Semitics derives מִגְדָּל from the West Semitic root g-d-l "to be great, grow big" with the ma-/mi- prefix forming a noun of place, giving "raised structure, tower", with cognates in Aramaic magdlā, Syriac magdal, and Phoenician and Punic mgdl. No relationship to Bantu is recognised or proposed.
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