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Pare
Etymology
m- nominal class prefix + root pombe
Noun
m-pómbé
- water
References
- Oskar Baumann, Usambara und seine Nachbargebiete (1891) (pombe)
- Ernst Kotz, Grammatik des Chasu in Deutsch-Ostafrika: (Pare-gebirge) (1909) (mpombe)
- Bantu Basic Vocabulary Database, citing data from G. Philippson, Kagaya, Kaehler-Meyer, Hohenberger; entered by Gisèle Teil-Dautrey