פוץputs
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Root
putsa
to break, to smash, to demolish, to break up a gathering
Hebrew puts descends from Shona putsa, to break in pieces
- Confidence
- 82/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- פוץ / הֵפִיץ (hēfîṣ)Hebrew
The consensus position
Mainstream comparative linguistics holds פוץ to be an inherited Semitic verbal root p-w-ṣ, hollow in form, belonging to a cluster of Hebrew roots on the nucleus pṣ meaning break or shatter, with Semitic cognates in Arabic, Akkadian, Aramaic and Geʿez and no connection to any African language outside the Afroasiatic family.
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