μονογενήςmonogenes
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Root
gono
uncastrated male animal, bull, the breeding male kept to sire the herd
Monogenes carries PIE *genh1-, begetting, matched to Shona gono, the begetter
- Confidence
- 44/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- μονογενής (monogenḗs)Ancient Greek
The consensus position
Mainstream linguistics derives monogenḗs from mónos 'alone, single' plus -genḗs, from génos 'birth, kind', continuing PIE *ǵenh₁- 'to beget, be born'; its New Testament sense is debated between 'unique' and 'only-begotten'.
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
- γεννάωgonobull, breeding male of the herd, the sire
- 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