ἀρνίονarnion
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Root
-wana (mwana)
young one, offspring, child; the young of a flock animal
Arnion descends from Shona wana, the young one of the flock
- Confidence
- 61/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- ἀρνίονAncient Greek
The consensus position
Mainstream comparative linguistics derives ἀρνίον from ἀρήν, stem ἀρν-, "lamb", with the diminutive suffix -ιον, going back to Proto-Indo-European *wr̥h1ēn "lamb, young sheep"; some scholars, notably Beekes, treat the Greek word as isolated and possibly of pre-Greek substrate origin.
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
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- 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
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- Theosmutsakindness, favour, mercy