Reconstruction:Proto-Bantu/ngòmbè

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 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

Etymology

A Mashariki (Eastern Bantu) word borrowed from an extinct, unknown language in East Africa in the late first millennium BC. Later spread to Western Bantu languages.

Noun

*ngòmbè class 9 (plural *ngòmbè class 10)

  1. cow/ox, cattle (irrespective of sex)

Descendants

References

  1. ^ An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400‎, (Can we date this quote?), pages 133, 135, 142
  2. ^ The Archaeological and Linguistic Reconstruction of African History‎, (Can we date this quote?), page 61
  3. ^ The Prehistory of the 73+ Bantu Languages and Bantu Language Groups of Zambia 3000 BC to 1600 AD: (including a New Interpretation of the Classification, Origins and Migrations of the 600+ Bantu Languages and Bantu Language Groups of Africa)‎, (Can we date this quote?), page 180
  4. ^ Entry 1434 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3
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