Home
Random
Log in
Settings
Donations
About Wiktionary
Disclaimers
Search
Reconstruction:Proto-Bantu/
-bímba
Language
Watch
Edit
This
Proto-Bantu
entry contains
reconstructed terms and roots
. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly
attested
, but are hypothesized to have existed based on
comparative
evidence.
Contents
1
Proto-Bantu
1.1
Verb
1.1.1
Descendants
1.2
References
Proto-Bantu
edit
Verb
edit
*-bímba
(
infinitive
*kʊ̀
)
[1]
to
swell
Descendants
edit
From
*-bímba
:
Bemba
(
M42
):
-fimba
Luganda
(
J15
):
-zimba
Rwanda-Rundi
(
J61/62
):
-byimba
,
-vyimba
Shona
(
S10
):
-zvimba
Southern Bantu:
Sotho-Tswana:
Sotho
(
S33
):
bipa
(
“
ferment
”
)
Tsonga
(
S53
):
-pfimba
Venda
(
S20
):
-zwimba
Swahili
(
G42
):
-vimba
From
mbímbà
("abdomen"):
Chichewa
(
N31
):
mimba
Swahili
(
G42
):
mimba
References
edit
^
Entry 240 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3
Categories
:
Proto-Bantu lemmas
Proto-Bantu verbs
Hidden categories:
Proto-Bantu links with manual fragments
Chichewa links with redundant alt parameters
Swahili links with redundant alt parameters