Nekevah
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Root
nengove
notch, grooved cut; one bearing a notched or bored thing (variant nhengove)
Nekevah descends from Shona nengove, the notched one, the cut surface
- Confidence
- 54/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- NekevahEnglish
The consensus position
Mainstream Semitic lexicography (BDB, HALOT, Gesenius) derives nəqēḇā from the Hebrew triliteral root n-q-b "to pierce, bore," with the feminine ending -āh, giving "the perforated one"; a minority view treats it as an inherited Semitic word for "female" only secondarily associated with that root. No relationship to Bantu is proposed in the comparative literature.
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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Elsewhere in the corpus
- בראbara (kubara)to beget, to bring forth, to give birth; in Karanga and Ndau craft use also to pare or hollow out
- Edenhudendeabundance, plenty, superfluity; from -dende, gourd or large calabash
- 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
- ChavahHuvhemoon, beauty, height, the deified feminine; reduced stem Vhe
- Megiddogudurato knock off, to break off, to dislodge a piece