Ba'al
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Root
mbari
lineage, family line descended from a founding patriarch; the recited praise of that line
Ba'al traced through Semitic *baʿl to Shona mbari, the patriarch's line
- Confidence
- 40/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- Baal (Ba'al)English
The consensus position
Mainstream comparative linguistics derives Ba'al from Proto-Semitic *baʿl- 'owner, lord, husband', with cognates across Semitic such as Akkadian bēlu and Arabic baʿl; no external Afroasiatic or Bantu connection is recognised.
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