σάρξsarx
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Root
cheka
to cut, to slice, to cut up meat, to slaughter
σάρξ descends from Shona cheka, to cut up, to butcher
- Confidence
- 54/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- σάρξAncient Greek
The consensus position
Mainstream comparative linguistics has no secure Indo-European etymology for σάρξ; some connect it to a root *twerḱ- 'to cut' alongside Armenian tʿarmn and Old Church Slavonic tvarogъ, while Beekes and others treat it as a Pre-Greek substrate word on account of its anomalous vocalism. No relationship to Bantu is proposed or recognised.
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