ትጉሃንtəguhan
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Root
-tuka
to be roused, to start up, to be startled awake; in the commonest modern sense, to revile
Geez tiguhan descends from Shona tuka, to be startled awake
- Confidence
- 61/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- ትጉሃንGeez
The consensus position
Mainstream Semitists treat ትጉሃን as the Geez masculine sound plural of ትጉህ "watchful, diligent", from the native Ethiopic verb ተግሀ "to be awake", root t-g-h, with solid cognates only inside Ethiopian Semitic and the angelic "Watchers" sense a fourth to sixth century calque on Greek egrēgoroi. No relationship to Bantu is proposed or entertained.
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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