kwata
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Sranan Tongo
[edit]Etymology
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Noun
[edit]kwata
Swahili
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kwata class IX (plural kwata class X)
Swazi
[edit]Verb
[edit]-kwáta
- to be angry
Inflection
[edit]This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Tooro
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-kʊ́ata (“to seize, grasp”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]-kwata (infinitive okukwata)
- (transitive) to hold, to grasp
- (transitive) to seize, to catch, to arrest
- (transitive) to touch
- (intransitive, of soup) to be thick
- (intransitive, of colour) to be dark, to be deep
Conjugation
[edit]1 The forms in this column are reduced relative forms; full relative forms require an augment before the subject concord.
Derived terms
[edit]- Verbal derivations:
- Applicative: -kwatira
- Short causative: -kwasa
- Passive: -kwatwa
- Short reciprocal: -kwatana
- Long reciprocal: -kwatangana
- Reflexive: -ekwata
- Short repetitive: -kwataniza
- -ho clitic: -kwataho (“to touch; to concern”)
References
[edit]- Kaji, Shigeki (2007), A Rutooro Vocabulary[1], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, pages 294, 295, 297, 362, 402
- Rubongoya, L. T. (2013), Katondogorozi y'Orunyoro-Rutooro n'Orungereza [Runyoro–Rutooro-English and English-Runyoro–Rutooro dictionary][2], Kampala: Modrug Publishers, →ISBN, page 213
- Entry 1974 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3
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- Swahili class IX nouns
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- Swazi lemmas
- Swazi verbs
- Tooro terms inherited from Proto-Bantu
- Tooro terms derived from Proto-Bantu
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- Tooro lemmas
- Tooro verbs
- Tooro transitive verbs
- Tooro intransitive verbs