κρίνωkrinō
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Root
-gura
to cut off, sever, break off, divide into parts
Krino descends from PIE krey, matching Shona gura, to sever
- Confidence
- 38/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- κρίνω (krī́nō)Ancient Greek
The consensus position
κρίνω is inherited from Proto-Indo-European *krey(H)- 'to sieve, separate' through a nasal present *kri-n-yo-, and is cognate with Latin cernō and crībrum and Old English hrīder.
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
- 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