mgodi
Chichewa edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately a borrowing from a Southern Bantu language; compare Zulu umgodi (“hole, mine”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mgodi class 3 (plural migodi class 4)
- mine (place from which ore is extracted)
Swahili edit
Etymology edit
Not present in the early dictionaries (Krapf and Madan). Ultimately a 20th-century borrowing from a Southern Bantu language; compare Zulu umgodi (“hole, mine”).
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun edit
mgodi (m-mi class, plural migodi)
- mine (place from which ore is extracted)
Synonyms edit
References edit
- Klein-Arendt, Reinhard (2000) “The Iron Crafts of the Swahili from the Perspective of Historical Semantics”, in Swahili Forum[1], volume 7, pages 153–204