Human
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Root
dongo
clay soil; hard-baked earth
Human from PIE earth aligns with Shona dongo clay
- Confidence
- 62/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- humanEnglish
The consensus position
Human is from Latin hūmānus human, humane, from homō man, related to humus earth, built to Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ earthling from *dʰéǵʰōm earth.
The working behind this.
The full descent — 10 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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