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Basaa
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *ìdìbà. Compare Bankon maléw.
Noun
malép
- water
References
- Jean Marcel Eugène Wognou, Les structures parentales africaines d'après les Basaa (1974)
- BBVD, citing data from Teil-Dautrey (1994) hosted in CBOLD, and from Lemb et de Gastines (1973) "Dictionnaire Basaa-français" (mà-lép)