אֱלֹהִיםelohim
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Root
Ishe
lord, sovereign, master, the one in front
Elohim descends from Proto-Semitic *'il- and lands on Shona Ishe
- Confidence
- 54/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- אֱלֹהִים ('ĕlōhīm)Hebrew
The consensus position
Mainstream comparative Semitics derives 'ĕlōhīm as the masculine plural of 'ĕlōah, itself related to 'ēl, all going back to Proto-Semitic *'il- "god, deity," with cognates in Ugaritic 'il, Akkadian ilu(m), Aramaic 'elāh and Arabic 'ilāh and 'allāh. No relation to any Bantu language is 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
- JesusIshelord, chief, master
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- Edenhudendeabundance, plenty, superfluity; from -dende, gourd or large calabash
- Nekevahnengovenotch, grooved cut; one bearing a notched or bored thing (variant nhengove)
- ZakhárZikirato know thoroughly, to recognise, to be acquainted with, to hold in mind (applicative of -zika / -ziva, to know)
- Pesachpesato pass, to pass by, to go past, to swerve aside; kupesana, to pass one another without meeting