Gōlem
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Root
kurumbira
to roll, to spread outward, to gain currency
No Shona root found on the frame g, l, m in order
- Confidence
- 12/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- golemEnglish
The consensus position
Mainstream comparative linguistics derives English golem from Yiddish goylem, from Hebrew golem "unformed mass, embryo", from the Semitic root g-l-m "to wrap, roll up", with cognates in Aramaic gelam and Syriac galma. No connection to Bantu languages is proposed or entertained.
The working behind this.
The full descent — 7 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
- 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