ἄνθρωποςanthrōpos
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Root
harahwa
old man, elder, grey-haired head of a household
Anthropos traced through PIE *h₂ner- plus *h₃ekʷ- to Shona harahwa
- Confidence
- 30/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- άνθρωπος (ánthropos)Modern Greek
The consensus position
Ánthrōpos has no accepted etymology; a compound of the stem of anēr 'man' with ōps 'face, eye' is proposed but problematic, and Beekes and others treat the word as Pre-Greek substrate.
The working behind this.
The full descent — 6 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