ikweta
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Swahili[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English equator.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun[edit]
ikweta (n class, plural ikweta)
References[edit]
- ^ Bolton, Caitlyn (2016) “Making Africa Legible: Kiswahili Arabic and Orthographiic Romanization in Colonial Zanzibar”, in American Journal of Islam and Society[1], volume 33, number 3, , page 71 of 61–78: “The entirely new words were all drawn from English, recast into “Swahili” spelling and pronunciation: Equator became ikweta, number became namba, and judge became jaji.”