ሰማይsamay
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Root
samha
to be raised up, to be high, to be set aloft (stative of sama, to carry on the head)
Geez samāy descends from Shona samha, to be raised aloft
- Confidence
- 61/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- ሰማይ (samāy)Geez
The consensus position
Mainstream comparative linguistics holds ሰማይ samāy to be the regular Ethiosemitic reflex of a Proto-Semitic noun for sky, cognate with Hebrew šāmayim, Arabic samāʾ, Akkadian šamû and Ugaritic šmm. It is treated as inherited Semitic vocabulary with no relationship to Bantu.
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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