kampuni
Luhya
[edit]Noun
[edit]kampuni
- company (in legal context, a corporation)
Swahili
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English company.[1][2][3]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kampuni class IX (plural kampuni class X)
- company (in legal context, a corporation)
References
[edit]- ^ Batibo, Herman M. (1996), “Loanword clusters nativization rules in Tswana and Swahili: a comparative study”, in South African Journal of African Language[1], volume 16, number 2, , page 38 of 33-41
- ^ Tucker, A. N. (1946), “Foreign Sounds in Swahili”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies[2], volume 11, number 4, , page 859 of 854-871
- ^ Petzell, Malin (2005), “Expanding the Swahili vocabulary”, in Africa & Asia[3], volume 5, →ISSN, archived from the original on 29 November 2009, page 88 of 85-107: “Loanwords involve a total morphemic incorporation of single or compound words with a varying amount of phonemic substitution. The phonemic adoption increases over time which is shown in a word like kampuni ‘company’.”