ἀγαπάωagapaō
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Root
-gova
to share out, divide, apportion (kugova; -govera to distribute, -govana to share with one another)
Agapao from Shona gova, to share out portions among guests
- Confidence
- 40/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- αγαπώ (agapó)Modern Greek
The consensus position
Mainstream scholarship holds that ἀγαπάω has no accepted etymology; Chantraine calls its origin obscure and Beekes suggests a Pre-Greek substrate word, with a possible but disputed link of ἀγα- to the intensive seen in ἄγαν.
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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Elsewhere in the corpus
- Pelagiaparato spread out, to lay out flat, to clear a surface level
- Kérberoskerekato be smeared, streaked, marked with dirt; causative kerekedza, to streak or daub
- ἀποκτείνω-tekanato be cut off, be broken off, be severed, to snap
- μάχαιραmhakamatter, case, dispute, cause of quarrel; fault, blame, the grounds on which one is answerable
- βλασφημία-bvato come out, to issue forth; in the derived bvuma, to give voice, to assent
- Theosmutsakindness, favour, mercy