Reduplication of aste (“slow”).[1]
asteaste
- slowly, carefully
- Synonyms: polepole, taratibu
- ^ Lodhi, Abdulaziz Y. (2000) Oriental Influences in Swahili: a study in language and culture contacts[1], Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, →ISBN, page 121: “the reduplicated adverb aste-aste (slowly, very slowly, carefully)”
