helil
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Root
hari
clay pot, earthenware vessel
Helil maps to Shona hari on the hollow H L L frame
- Confidence
- 62/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- ḥēlîl ‘חֵלִיל’Ancient Hebrew
The consensus position
Hebrew ḥēlîl is a Northwest Semitic instrument noun from the root ḥ‑l‑l ‘pierce, bore, make hollow’, with no accepted relationship to Bantu or Shona.
The working behind this.
The full descent — 4 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
- 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
- ChavahHuvhemoon, beauty, height, the deified feminine; reduced stem Vhe
- Edenhudendeabundance, plenty, superfluity; from -dende, gourd or large calabash