Reconstruction:Proto-Sabaki/angama

This Proto-Sabaki entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Sabaki

Etymology

A Proto-Sabaki innovation.[1] Nurse & Hinnebusch tentatively link it with a North-East Coast Bantu *-(ba)nanga, whence Swahili -bananga (“to spoil, to destroy”).[2]

Noun

*-angama[3]

  1. to be destroyed

Descendants

Derived terms

  • *-angamila: applicative
    • Swahili:
  • *-angamizya (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Nurse, Derek; Hinnebusch, Thomas J. (1993), Swahili and Sabaki: A Linguistic History, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 290
  2. ^ Nurse, Derek; Hinnebusch, Thomas J. (1993), Swahili and Sabaki: A Linguistic History, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 658
  3. ^ Nurse, Derek; Hinnebusch, Thomas J. (1993), Swahili and Sabaki: A Linguistic History, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 580
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