ἸησοῦςIesous
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Root
washa
to loosen, to untie, to set free, to release
Ἰησοῦς descends through Semitic wṯʿ to Shona washa, to set free
- Confidence
- 62/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- ἸησοῦςAncient Greek
The consensus position
Mainstream comparative linguistics holds that Greek Ἰησοῦς is a Hellenisation of Aramaic Yēšūaʿ, a post-exilic short form of Hebrew Yəhōšuaʿ, "YHWH is salvation", built on the Semitic root Y-Š-ʿ. Shona Jesu is regarded as a nineteenth-century missionary loan into Shona, with no genetic relation between Semitic and Bantu.
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