umulonga

Bemba

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *gʊ́mʊ̀dòngà (“river”).

Noun

umulonga class 3 (plural imilonga, augmentless mulonga, plural augmentless milonga)

  1. running water

References

  • Reverend E. Hoch (1998), Bemba - English/English - Bemba‎[1], Hippocrene Books, pages 63, 203

Lala-Bisa

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *gʊ́mʊ̀dòngà (“river”).

Noun

umulonga class 3 (plural imilonga, augmentless mulonga, plural augmentless milonga)

  1. current (rush of water)

References

  • Arthur Cornwallis Madan (1908), Lala-Lamba Handbook: A Short Introduction to the South-Western Division of the Wisa-Lala Dialect of Northern Rhodesia with Stories and Vocabulary‎[2], Oxford Clarendon Press, page 116
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