Reconstruction:Proto-Bantu/kám

This Proto-Bantu entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Bantu

Noun

*kám class 1

squeeze, wring

Descendants

Northeast Savanna Bantu
- Great Lakes Bantu
  - Nyoro (J11): omukama (“the Great Milker/King”)
  - Tooro (J12): omukama (“The Great Milker/King”)
  - Nyankole (J13): omukama (“The Milker/Lord”)
  - Haya (J22): omukama (“The Milker/King”)
  - Rwanda-Rundi (J61/62): umukámyi (“the milker”), gukáma (“to milk”)
- Thagiicu
  - Meru (E53): gukama (“to milk”)
- Northeast Coast Bantu
  - Swahili (G42): kukama (“to milk”)
Shona (S10): kukámá (“to milk”)
Chichewa (N31): kukáma (“to milk”)

Southern Bantu
- Nguni
  - Phuthi (S404): -kgáma (“to milk”)
  - Zulu (S42): khama (“squeeze, press, express, to wring out”)
  - Northern Ndebele (S44): khama (“to choke”)

References

^ Entry 1689 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3

http://sumale.vjf.cnrs.fr/NC/Public/pdf/PB92list-Shadeberg.pdf https://en.m.wiktionary.orghttps://dictious.com/en/Appendix:Proto-Bantu_reconstructions

[1] Entry 1689 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3

Reconstruction:Proto-Bantu/kám

Contents

Proto-Bantu

Noun

Descendants

References

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