עִירir
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Root
Hura
to open up, to uncover, to lay bare; to open the eyes
Hebrew ir descends from Shona hura, to open, to uncover
- Confidence
- 58/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- עִיר (ʿîr)Hebrew
The consensus position
Mainstream comparative Semitics treats עִיר as an inherited West Semitic noun for a settlement, cognate with Ugaritic ʿyr, Phoenician ʿyr, Moabite ʿr and Sabaic ʿyr, with a widely repeated but undemonstrated proposal linking it to the root ʿ-w-r "be awake, watch" via Aramaic עִיר "watcher". No relationship to Shona or any Bantu language is recognised, and the anomalous plural עָרִים is generally taken as evidence of a primary biconsonantal noun rather than a verbal derivation.
The working behind this.
The full descent — 7 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