Chayyim
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Root
-haya
to live at, to dwell, to reside, to remain in a place
Chayyim descends from Shona haya, to dwell, to remain, to stay
- Confidence
- 58/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- ChayyimEnglish
The consensus position
Mainstream comparative linguistics derives Chayyim from Hebrew חַיִּים ḥayyīm 'life', a plural-of-abstraction of ḥay 'alive' from the root ḥ-y-y / ḥ-y-h, going back to Proto-Semitic *ḥyw / *ḥyy 'to live', with cognates in Arabic ḥayya, Aramaic ḥayē, Ugaritic ḥywt and Geez ḥaywa. It has no relationship to Shona or any Bantu language.
The working behind this.
The full descent — 8 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
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- 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