Ball
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Root
bereka
to bear, beget; to produce offspring
Ball aligns with PIE bhel via Shona bereka
- Confidence
- 58/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- ballEnglish
The consensus position
Ball is a Germanic word from Proto-Germanic *balluz or *ballō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- ‘to swell’; no connection to Bantu is posited in mainstream accounts.
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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