Nicaula
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Root
kunakira
to be pleasing to, to be good for; passive nakirwa, to delight in
Nicaula from Egyptian Nt-iqr, excellent, matched to Shona -nakira, pleasing
- Confidence
- 30/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- NicaulaEnglish
The consensus position
Nikaulē is the name Josephus gives the queen who visited Solomon, and scholars generally regard it as a corruption of Herodotus' Nitōkris, from the Egyptian theophoric name Nt-ỉqrt, Neith is excellent. The Ethiopian Makeda and Arabic Bilqīs are separate traditions.
The working behind this.
The full descent — 7 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
- Pelagiaparato spread out, to lay out flat, to clear a surface level
- Kérberoskerekato be smeared, streaked, marked with dirt; causative kerekedza, to streak or daub
- ἀποκτείνω-tekanato be cut off, be broken off, be severed, to snap
- μάχαιραmhakamatter, case, dispute, cause of quarrel; fault, blame, the grounds on which one is answerable
- βλασφημία-bvato come out, to issue forth; in the derived bvuma, to give voice, to assent
- Theosmutsakindness, favour, mercy