Bēthania
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Root
-vata
to sleep, lie down, pass the night (kuvata; applicative -vatira, to lodge at)
Bethany built on Semitic house root, Shona vata, to sleep
- Confidence
- 52/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- BethanyEnglish
The consensus position
Bethany is the Greek and Latin rendering of a Semitic place name whose first element is bēt, house of, from Proto-Semitic *bayt-; the second element is disputed, most often read as Aramaic ʿanyā, poor or afflicted, or linked to the town ʿĂnanyāh.
The working behind this.
The full descent — 9 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.
An account opens 10 entries in full, free.
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