Pray

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English

Root

kupira

to offer or dedicate to a spirit or deity

Pray from PIE prek aligned to Shona kupira ritual appeal

Confidence
58/100
Root language
Shona
Descent begins
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The consensus position

Pray is held to derive via Anglo-Norman and Old French prier from Latin precari, from Latin prex, precis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *prek- or *prekʷ- ‘ask, entreat’.

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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