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Root
bango
rafter, roof-beam, structural timber
Book aligns with Shona bango beam from beech wood
- Confidence
- 52/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- bookEnglish
The consensus position
Standard etymology derives English book from Proto-Germanic *bōk-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g- beech, with no relationship to Shona.
The working behind this.
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