ovava

Portuguese

Verb

ovava

1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ovar

Umbundu

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *ìdìbà.

Noun

ovava class 6

1. water

Further reading

• Wesley Maier Stover, Observations Upon the Grammatical Structure and Use of the Umbundu (1885): if special attention is called to the locality of the subject, ovava mwapwa, the water (in a vessel) is all gone. In this instance, if no special attention were called to the locality of the water, the regular pronominal prefix of Class 6 would be used : ovava (v)apwa; the v generally dropping.
• William H. Sanders, William E. Fay, Vocabulary of the Umbundu Language (1885)
• W. C. Bell, Umbundu Tales, Angola, Southwest Africa (1922)