mbuna
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Tonga (Malawi) mbuna (“cichlid”).
Noun edit
mbuna (plural mbunas)
- One of a group of haplochromine cichlids from Lake Malawi.
- 2014, Steve Donda, Fragmentation of Resource Management on the South East Arm of Lake Malawi: Dynamics Around Fisheries:
- The mbunas have suffered such local extinctions for a number of reasons. These include shifts in eating habits for the fisher folk who prefer eating mbunas and save the prime species for their market (in contrast to original beliefs that mbunas are not edible), habitate loss and fragementation leading to loss of breeding sites (especially along the western side of the arm where much development is taking place, for instance, the construction of resorts).
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Etymology edit
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Relative edit
-mbuna?
Inflection edit
Relative concord | ||||
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Modifier | Copulative | |||
positive | negative | positive | negative | |
1st singular | endimbuna | endingembuna | ndimbuna | andimbuna |
2nd singular | ombuna | ongembuna | umbuna | awumbuna |
1st plural | esimbuna | esingembuna | simbuna | asimbuna |
2nd plural | enimbuna | eningembuna | nimbuna | animbuna |
Class 1 | ombuna | ongembuna | umbuna | akambuna |
Class 2 | abambuna | abangembuna | bambuna | abambuna |
Class 3 | ombuna | ongembuna | umbuna | awumbuna |
Class 4 | embuna | engembuna | imbuna | ayimbuna |
Class 5 | elimbuna | elingembuna | limbuna | alimbuna |
Class 6 | ambuna | angembuna | ambuna | awambuna |
Class 7 | esimbuna | esingembuna | simbuna | asimbuna |
Class 8 | ezimbuna | ezingembuna | zimbuna | azimbuna |
Class 9 | embuna | engembuna | imbuna | ayimbuna |
Class 10 | ezimbuna | ezingembuna | zimbuna | azimbuna |
Class 11 | olumbuna | olungembuna | lumbuna | alumbuna |
Class 14 | obumbuna | obungembuna | bumbuna | abumbuna |
Class 15 | okumbuna | okungembuna | kumbuna | akumbuna |
Class 17 | okumbuna | okungembuna | kumbuna | akumbuna |