Hair
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Root
chara
finger, small stick, that which marks or scratches
Hair descends from Shona chara, the thin stiff projecting stick
- Confidence
- 61/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- hairEnglish
The consensus position
Mainstream comparative linguistics derives English hair from Old English hær, from Proto-Germanic *hēran, with an uncertain further link to Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- "bristle" or *ker- "grow, project"; no relation to Shona or any Bantu language is proposed.
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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