mgodi
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Chichewa[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Ultimately a borrowing from a Southern Bantu language; compare Zulu umgodi (“hole, mine”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mgodi class 3 (plural migodi class 4)
- mine (place from which ore is extracted)
Swahili[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Not present in the early dictionaries (Krapf and Madan). Ultimately a 20th-century borrowing from a Southern Bantu language; compare Zulu umgodi (“hole, mine”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun[edit]
mgodi (m-mi class, plural migodi)
- mine (place from which ore is extracted)
Synonyms[edit]
References[edit]
- Klein-Arendt, Reinhard (2000) “The Iron Crafts of the Swahili from the Perspective of Historical Semantics”, in Swahili Forum[1], volume 7, pages 153–204