דָּבָרdabar
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Root
dabira
to move backwards, to withdraw, to shift to the rear, to give ground
Hebrew dabar descends from Shona dabira, to move behind, to withdraw
- Confidence
- 71/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- dabarModern Hebrew
The consensus position
Mainstream comparative Semitics derives דָּבָר from the triliteral root d-b-r, cognate with Arabic dubur "hind part" and dabbara "to arrange", Akkadian dabāru "to drive off", and Ugaritic, Phoenician and Moabite dbr "word, matter"; whether the "speak" sense derives from "be behind, set in order" or belongs to a separate homophonous root is unresolved. No relationship to Bantu is recognised, and any resemblance to Shona forms is treated as coincidence.
The working behind this.
The full descent — 8 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
- בראbara (kubara)to beget, to bring forth, to give birth; in Karanga and Ndau craft use also to pare or hollow out
- 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
- Megiddogudurato knock off, to break off, to dislodge a piece