πατήρpatēr
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Root
batira
to hold for, to look after on behalf of, to serve, to keep for another
Patēr from Shona batira, the one who holds and keeps
- Confidence
- 34/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- πατήρ (patḗr)Ancient Greek
The consensus position
Πατήρ is inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr, father, with cognates in Latin pater, Sanskrit pitā and Gothic fadar. Its internal structure is debated, either a nursery syllable plus the kinship suffix *-ter- or an agent noun from *peh₂-, to protect.
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