Reconstruction:Proto-Bantu/ngòmbè

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.

Proto-Bantu

Etymology

A Mashariki (Eastern Bantu) word borrowed from an extinct, unknown language in East Africa in the late first millennium BC. Later spread to Western Bantu languages.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Noun

*ngòmbè class 9 (plural *ngòmbè class 10)^[4]

cow/ox, cattle (irrespective of sex)

Descendants

Central western Bantu
- Njila
  - Herero (R30): ongombe
  - Umbundu (R11): ngombe
  - Kimbundu (H21): ngombe
  - Lunda (L52): ñombi
- West Coastal Bantu
  - Nzadi (B865): ŋgwɔm
  - Kongo (H16): ngômbe
    - → Palenquero: ngombe
- Luban
  - Luba-Katanga (L33): ñombe
- Lingala (C30B): ngɔ́mbɛ́
East Bantu
- Northeast Bantu:
  - Great Lakes Bantu
    - Luhya (J32): ing'ombe
    - Gusii (J42): eng'ombe
    - Nyole (Uganda) (J35): eŋombe
  - Thagiicu:
    - Kamba (E55): ng'ombe
    - Kikuyu (E51): ng'ombe
  - Northeast Coast Bantu:
    - Mwani (G403): ng'ombe
    - Swahili (G42): ng'ombe
      - → Malagasy: omby
- Nyasa:
  - Chichewa (N31): ng'ombe
  - Tumbuka (N21): ng'ombe
- Shona (S10): mombe, n'ombe
- North Mozambique Bantu
  - Makua:
    - Makhuwa (P31): inyompe
    - Chuabo (P34): ng'ombe

References

^ An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400‎^[1], (Can we date this quote?), pages 133, 135, 142
^ The Archaeological and Linguistic Reconstruction of African History‎^[2], (Can we date this quote?), page 61
^ The Prehistory of the 73+ Bantu Languages and Bantu Language Groups of Zambia 3000 BC to 1600 AD: (including a New Interpretation of the Classification, Origins and Migrations of the 600+ Bantu Languages and Bantu Language Groups of Africa)‎^[3], (Can we date this quote?), page 180
^ Entry 1434 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3

[1] An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400‎^[1], (Can we date this quote?), pages 133, 135, 142

[2] The Archaeological and Linguistic Reconstruction of African History‎^[2], (Can we date this quote?), page 61

[3] The Prehistory of the 73+ Bantu Languages and Bantu Language Groups of Zambia 3000 BC to 1600 AD: (including a New Interpretation of the Classification, Origins and Migrations of the 600+ Bantu Languages and Bantu Language Groups of Africa)‎^[3], (Can we date this quote?), page 180

[4] Entry 1434 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3

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