Happy
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Root
hwapa
armpit, underarm
Happy aligns with Shona hwapa by the h and p frame
- Confidence
- 48/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- happyEnglish
The consensus position
English happy is from Middle English hap ‘chance, luck’ plus -y, with hap from Old Norse happ and ultimately Proto-Germanic *hap-; no connection to Bantu is posited.
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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