kimono
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Root
Kamona
small wrapped thing, a little coil or covering, from -mona to wind, to coil, to wrap about
Kimono traces to Shona kamona, the small wound or wrapped covering
- Confidence
- 31/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- kimonoEnglish
The consensus position
English kimono is a late nineteenth century borrowing from Japanese 着物 kimono, a transparent compound of ki- (continuative stem of kiru 'to wear') plus mono 'thing', hence 'thing worn'. Japonic is held to have no securely demonstrated external relatives, and no relationship to Bantu is recognised.
The working behind this.
The full descent — 8 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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