ἸησοῦςIesous
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Root
Ishe
lord, chief, sovereign; the one who gives refuge (plural madzishe)
Iesous descends from Semitic *yṯʿ, carried in Shona Ishe, lord
- Confidence
- 45/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoûs)Ancient Greek
The consensus position
Mainstream linguistics holds that Greek Iēsoûs renders Hebrew or Aramaic Yēšūaʿ, a short form of Yəhōšūaʿ meaning 'Yahweh saves', from the Semitic root y-š-ʿ. No connection to Bantu vocabulary is recognised.
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
- JesusIshelord, chief, master
- אֱלֹהִיםIshelord, sovereign, master, the one in front
- 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