mgodi
Chichewa
editEtymology
editUltimately a borrowing from a Southern Bantu language; compare Zulu umgodi (“hole, mine”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmgodi class 3 (plural migodi class 4)
- mine (place from which ore is extracted)
Swahili
editEtymology
editNot present in the early dictionaries (Krapf and Madan). Ultimately a 20th-century borrowing from a Southern Bantu language; compare Zulu umgodi (“hole, mine”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmgodi class III (plural migodi class IV)
- mine (place from which ore is extracted)
Synonyms
editReferences
edit- Klein-Arendt, Reinhard (2000) “The Iron Crafts of the Swahili from the Perspective of Historical Semantics”, in Swahili Forum[1], volume 7, pages 153–204