Southern Ndebele edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English purple.

Relative edit

-phephuli?

  1. purple

Inflection edit

Relative concord
Modifier Copulative
1st singular engiphephuli ngiphephuli
2nd singular ophephuli uphephuli
1st plural esiphephuli siphephuli
2nd plural eniphephuli niphephuli
Class 1 ophephuli uphephuli
Class 2 abaphephuli baphephuli
Class 3 ophephuli uphephuli
Class 4 ephephuli iphephuli
Class 5 eliphephuli liphephuli
Class 6 aphephuli aphephuli
Class 7 esiphephuli siphephuli
Class 8 eziphephuli ziphephuli
Class 9 ephephuli iphephuli
Class 10 eziphephuli ziphephuli
Class 14 obuphephuli buphephuli
Class 15 okuphephuli kuphephuli
Class 17 okuphephuli kuphephuli

See also edit

Colors in Southern Ndebele · imibala (layout · text)
     -mhlophe      -tshetlha      -nzima
             -bomvu              -orentji; -nzotho              -tjheli
                          -hlaza             
                                       -hlaza
                          -phephuli              -pinki