רוּחַruach
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Root
ruhwa
open cleared field, a wide expanse of open ground, the outdoors
Ruach descends from Shona ruhwa, the wide open airy expanse
- Confidence
- 54/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- רוּחַ (rúaḥ)Hebrew
The consensus position
Mainstream comparative Semitics derives רוּחַ from a Proto-Semitic root r-w-ḥ meaning wind, breath, air in motion, with cognates in Arabic rīḥ and rūḥ, Aramaic and Syriac rūḥā, Ugaritic and Phoenician rwḥ, and Geʽez rōḥa. No relationship to Bantu is recognised; Shona mweya and mhepo are treated as unrelated native or translation vocabulary.
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
- 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