Vulnerable
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Root
-vhurunga
to stir up, to churn, to beat about violently, to throw into disorder
Vulnerable descends from Shona vhurunga, to beat about, to disorder
- Confidence
- 57/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- vulnerableEnglish
The consensus position
Mainstream comparative linguistics derives English vulnerable from Late Latin vulnerabilis, built on vulnerare "to wound" and the noun vulnus (stem vulner-), traced to Proto-Indo-European *welh3- "to strike, wound". No relation to any Bantu language is proposed.
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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