Nzadi edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jánà.

Noun edit

mwǎàn (plural bǎàn)

  1. child
Alternative forms edit
  • mwǎ (reduced form sometimes used in compounds)

Etymology 2 edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun edit

mwáán (plural mwáán)

  1. light

Further reading edit

  • Crane, Thera, Larry Hyman, Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN