fwa

fwa

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Fwâi.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Fwâi terms

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-kúa (“to die”), from Proto-Atlantic-Congo *kwwú- (“to die”).

-fwa (infinitive ukufwa)

1. to die
2. to be out of order

• -fwila

• Reverend E. Hoch (1998), Bemba - English/English - Bemba‎^[1], Hippocrene Books, page 33

• IPA^(key): /fwa/

From French foie (“liver”).

fwa

1. liver

From French foi (“faith”).

fwa

1. faith

From French fois (“time”).

fwa

1. time (an instance or repetition of something happening)

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[2], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 72

Borrowed from Kongo fwa.

fwa

1. to die

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-kúa (“to die”), from Proto-Atlantic-Congo *kwwú- (“to die”).

fwa

1. to die

• fuwa (“passive form of "fwa"”)

• William Holman Bentley (1887), Dictionary and Grammar of the Kongo Language, as spoken at San Salvador, the Ancient Capital of the Old Kongo Empire, West Africa‎^[3], Baptist Missionary Society, pages 56, 280

fwa

1. hole, opening

• I. Bril, Dictionnaire Nelemwa-Nixumwak (2000)
• Pavol Štekauer, Salvador Valera, Lívia Kőrtvélyessy, Word-Formation in the World's Languages: A Typological Survey (2012)

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-kúa (“to die”), from Proto-Atlantic-Congo *kwwú- (“to die”).

fwa

1. to die

From French fois.

fwa

1. time (an instance of something happening)

Used to form the adverbials of numbers that do not have lexical adverbial forms. For example, once is enn fwa.

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-kúa (“to die”), from Proto-Atlantic-Congo *kwwú- (“to die”).

-fwa (infinitive kufwa)

1. to die

• imfwa (“death”)

• The Bible Society of Zambia, Chinsenga New Testament, 2015

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-kúa (“to die”), from Proto-Atlantic-Congo *kwwú- (“to die”).

-fwa (infinitive ukufwa)

1. to die

• imfwa (“death”)

• Bible Society of Zambia, WAKALATA WANO WALI, 1982

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-kúa (“to die”), from Proto-Atlantic-Congo *kwwú- (“to die”).

-fwa (infinitive kufwa)

1. to die.

• -fwila (“to die on someone's behalf”)
• nyifwa (“death”)

• Wm. Y. Turner, Tumbuka/Tonga-English and English-Tumbuka/Tonga Dictionary, 1996