פָּנִיםpanim
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Root
Pindura
to turn, to turn round, to turn back; to answer, to turn a word back to its speaker
Panim descends from Shona Pindura, to turn, to turn toward
- Confidence
- 61/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- פָּנִים (pānîm)Hebrew
The consensus position
Mainstream comparative linguistics derives pānîm from Northwest Semitic *pan- "face, front, surface", pluralised in Hebrew, connected to the Proto-Semitic verbal root *p-n-y "to turn", with cognates in Akkadian pānu, Ugaritic pn and Arabic fanāʾ. No connection to Bantu is proposed.
The working behind this.
The full descent — 8 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
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- 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