שִׁנְעָר
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Root
Shanhura
to strip, to shake off, to pull apart, to scatter what was joined
Shinar descends from Shona shanhura, to strip apart, the dispersal ground
- Confidence
- 44/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- שִׁנְעָר (Šinʿār)Hebrew
The consensus position
Mainstream comparative linguistics treats Hebrew שִׁנְעָר as a borrowed foreign toponym, equated with Akkadian Šanḫar and Egyptian Sngr, second-millennium designations of Kassite Babylonia. Its ultimate origin is non-Semitic and undetermined, with proposals from a Šumer-plus-Akkad blend or from Sumerian, none demonstrated, and no Hebrew triconsonantal root is assigned.
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
- 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