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Root
kufarira
to like, to be fond of
Friend tracks PIE pri love corresponding to Shona farira like
- Confidence
- 73/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- friendEnglish
The consensus position
English friend is universally derived from Old English frēond ‘friend, lover’, from Proto-Germanic *frijōndz, the participle of *frijōną ‘to love’, tracing back to Proto-Indo-European *priy-/*prī-.
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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