muti
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Zulu umuthi (“shrub, tree, medicine”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
muti (countable and uncountable, plural mutis)
- (South Africa) Traditional African medicine. [from 19th c.]
- 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage 2000, p. 179:
- The witchdoctor shop with its muti, its vulture eggs, the skins and hair and nails and horns and unmentionable excretions, its useless whorl of incense; and the Indian owner glaring at one like a dark wooden mask.
- 2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury 2013, p. 300:
- Lekota's handing on a plate ammunition against himself, scrapping our genuine African herb medicine, Affirmative Action, that national muti.
- 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage 2000, p. 179:
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VerbEdit
muti
- first-person singular present subjunctive form of mutar
- third-person singular present subjunctive form of mutar
- third-person singular imperative form of mutar
EstonianEdit
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AdjectiveEdit
muti
- Masculine plural of adjective muto.
VerbEdit
muti
- second-person singular present of mutare
- first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive of mutare
- third-person singular imperative of mutare
LatinEdit
AdjectiveEdit
mūtī
- nominative masculine plural of mūtus
- genitive masculine singular of mūtus
- genitive neuter singular of mūtus
- vocative masculine plural of mūtus
LatvianEdit
MwaniEdit
Old PrussianEdit
PhuthiEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tɪ́.
NounEdit
múti class 3 (plural míti class 4)
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