zizima

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-dìdima (“to be cold - zone E”).

-zizima (infinitive kuzizima)

1. to be wet
2. to be cold

• -zizimisa (“to cool”)

• Joseph Mwalonya, Alison Nicolle, Steve Nicolle, Juma Zimbu, Mgombato. Digo-English-Swahili Dictionary (2005), page 204

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-dìdima (“to be cold, to tremble - zone N”).

-zizima (infinitive kuzizima)

1. to be cold
2. to be wersh or insipid

• zizimu (“cold”)

• William Y. Turner (1996), Tumbuka/Tonga-English and English - Tumbuka/Tonga Dictionary‎^[1], Central Africana Limited, page 167