ἀπόλλυμιapollumi
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Root
-ora (kuora)
to rot, to decay, to go bad, to perish physically
Greek ollumi, to destroy, set against Shona kuora, to rot
- Confidence
- 38/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- ἀπόλλυμιAncient Greek
The consensus position
ἀπόλλυμι is ἀπό 'away' plus ὄλλυμι 'destroy', from Proto-Indo-European *h₃elh₁- 'destroy', with Hittite ḫulla- 'smash' as the main cognate. Shona -ora is regarded as a reflex of Proto-Bantu *-bɔ́d- 'rot', unrelated to the Greek.
The working behind this.
The full descent — 5 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