תְּהוֹםtehom
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Root
-thama
to be wide, to stretch out, to open out broadly; breadth, an open expanse
Tehom descends from Shona thama, to stretch wide, the open expanse
- Confidence
- 57/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- the deepEnglish
The consensus position
Mainstream comparative Semitics holds תְּהוֹם to be a native Northwest Semitic noun from Proto-Semitic *tihām- "sea, deep", cognate with Akkadian tiāmtu and Ugaritic thm, with the initial t- part of the stem rather than a prefix. Gunkel's proposed borrowing from Akkadian Ti'āmat is generally rejected, and no secure Afro-Asiatic or Bantu connection is recognised.
The working behind this.
The full descent — 6 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