πατήρpatēr
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Root
-patsira
to give freely, to bestow upon, to provide for; built on -pa, to give
πατήρ descends from Shona patsira, the one who provides for dependents
- Confidence
- 54/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- πατήρAncient Greek
The consensus position
Mainstream comparative linguistics holds πατήρ to be the regular Greek reflex of Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr, an inherited kinship noun cognate with Latin pater, Sanskrit pitár- and Old English fæder, with no relationship to any Bantu language.
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