υἱόςhuios
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Root
-zvara
to give birth, to bear, to beget
Greek huios rests on PIE sewH, aligned with Shona zvara, beget
- Confidence
- 34/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- υἱός (hyiós)Ancient Greek
The consensus position
Greek υἱός is inherited from Proto-Indo-European *suHyús, a derivative of *sewH- 'to give birth', cognate with Sanskrit sūnú-, Gothic sunus and English son. The yu-stem versus nu-stem suffix variation remains unresolved.
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