Pare edit

Etymology edit

m- nominal class prefix + root che

Noun edit

m-ché

  1. woman
  2. wife

References edit

  • Oskar Baumann, Usambara und seine Nachbargebiete (1891) (mche)
  • Ernst Kotz, Grammatik des Chasu in Deutsch-Ostafrika: (Pare-gebirge) (1909) (mche)
  • Bantu Basic Vocabulary Database, citing data from G. Philippson, Kagaya, Kaehler-Meyer, Hohenberger; entered by Gisèle Teil-Dautrey (m̀-tʃ̑é)
  • Rafiki Yohana, A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Variation in a Rural African Community: Chasu in Same District, Tanzania (2009)

Swahili edit

Pronunciation edit

  • (file)

Noun edit

mche (m-mi class, plural miche)

  1. seedling, sapling
  2. prism