Hadad
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Root
dutu
storm, gale, whirlwind
Hadad, the Thunderer, comes from Shona dutu, the storm
- Confidence
- 45/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- Hadad (הֲדַד)Ancient Hebrew
The consensus position
Hadad is the name of the West Semitic storm god, generally derived from a Semitic root hdd meaning to thunder or crash and cognate with Ugaritic Haddu and Akkadian Adad. Some scholars leave open a pre-Semitic origin for the theonym.
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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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