wuka

Cognate with Tumbuka -wuka (“to rise, to resurrect”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈwu.ka/

-wuka (infinitive kuwúka)

1. alternative form of -uka (“to rise”)

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -wukira
  • Causative: -wutsa
  • Repetitive: -wukanso

• Nominal derivations:
  • chowuka (“ghost”)

-wúka

1. to go down

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Cognate with Chichewa -uka (“to rise, to resurrect”)

-wuka (infinitive kuwuka)

1. to rise
2. to awake
3. to start off

• Ciwuka (“the Resurrection”)
• -wukirana (“to rise up against each other (in a quarrel)”)
• muwukirano (“adolescent”)
• -wuska (“to lift, to raise”)

• William Y. Turner (1996), Tumbuka/Tonga-English and English - Tumbuka/Tonga Dictionary‎^[1], Central Africana Limited, page 158