mgodi

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Chichewa

Etymology

Ultimately a borrowing from a Southern Bantu language; compare Zulu umgodi (hole, mine).

Pronunciation

Noun

mgodi class 3 (plural migodi class 4)

  1. mine (place from which ore is extracted)

Swahili

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Etymology

Not present in the early dictionaries (Krapf and Madan). Ultimately a 20th-century borrowing from a Southern Bantu language; compare Zulu umgodi (hole, mine).

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

mgodi (m-mi class, plural migodi)

  1. mine (place from which ore is extracted)

Synonyms

References

  • Klein-Arendt, Reinhard (2000) “The Iron Crafts of the Swahili from the Perspective of Historical Semantics”, in Swahili Forum, volume 7, pages 153–204