רֵאשִׁיתreshit
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Root
rasha
to be uppermost, to set at the head, to send ahead; in the nominal murasha, the foremost one, the senior, the head of a line
Reshith descends from Shona rasha, to be uppermost, the foremost one
- Confidence
- 71/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- רֵאשִׁית (rēʾšîṯ)Ancient Hebrew
The consensus position
Mainstream comparative Semitics derives רֵאשִׁית from Hebrew רֹאשׁ "head" plus the abstract nominal suffix -îṯ, going back to Proto-Semitic *raʾš- "head", with cognates in Akkadian rēšu, Ugaritic rʾš, Arabic raʾs, Aramaic rēš and Geʿez rəʾs. No relationship to Bantu is recognised, and any Proto-Afroasiatic extension of the root is regarded as contested.
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
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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