עֶרֶבerev
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Root
guruva
dust, fine earth raised in the air; haze, the dimming of the air
Hebrew erev descends from Shona guruva, the dust haze of sundown
- Confidence
- 54/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- עֶרֶב ('erev)Hebrew
The consensus position
Mainstream comparative Semitics derives Hebrew עֶרֶב from a Semitic root ʿ-r-b (or *ġ-r-b) meaning to enter or go down, said of the sun, with Akkadian erēbu, Ugaritic ʿrb, Arabic gharaba and Ge'ez ʿaraba as cognates; the noun names the time of sunset and, in derived forms, the west. No relationship to Shona or any Bantu language is proposed or 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