incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. -<span class="searchmatch">lemaa</span> (infinitive kulemaa) to be crippled or disabled Verbal derivations: Causative:...
kulemaa (verbal noun of the ku class) infinitive of -<span class="searchmatch">lemaa</span>...
-lemaza (infinitive kulemaza) Causative form of -<span class="searchmatch">lemaa</span>: to disable or cripple Verbal derivations: Passive: -lemazwa (“to be disabled”)...
From m- + -<span class="searchmatch">lemaa</span> (“to be crippled or disabled”) + -vu. mlemavu class I (plural walemavu class II) a person with a disability Synonym: kilema ulemavu...
Swahili Wikipedia has an article on: ulemavu Wikipedia sw From u- + -<span class="searchmatch">lemaa</span> (“to be crippled or disabled”) + -vu. ulemavu class XI (no plural) disability...
ending in a vowel -legea (“to be loose”) + -vu → -legevu (“loose”) -<span class="searchmatch">lemaa</span> (“to be disabled”) + -vu → ulemavu (“disability”) Swahili terms suffixed...