Makeda
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Root
mukuru
the great one, the senior, the elder, the one in authority
Makeda descends from Shona mukuru, the great one who holds authority
- Confidence
- 44/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- MakedaEnglish
The consensus position
Mainstream scholarship treats Makeda as a proper name first securely attested in the Geez Kebra Nagast (14th century) for the otherwise unnamed Queen of Sheba, with no accepted Semitic root etymology; the most discussed proposal links it to Meroitic kdke / Greek Kandake, the Kushite queen-mother title, and no connection to Bantu is entertained.
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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