brother
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Root
buritsira
bring out for, reveal, publish
Brother aligns to Shona buritsira via the b r t r frame
- Confidence
- 56/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- brotherEnglish
The consensus position
English brother is from Proto-Germanic *brōþēr, ultimately from Proto Indo European *bʰréh₂tēr, with stable meaning male sibling and no relation to Shona.
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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