mgodi

Chichewa

Etymology

Ultimately a borrowing from a Southern Bantu language; compare Zulu umgodi (“hole, mine”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mˈɡo.ɗi/

Noun

mgodi class 3 (plural migodi class 4)

mine (place from which ore is extracted)

Swahili

Etymology

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

Audio (Kenya) (file)

Noun

mgodi (m-mi class, plural migodi)

mine (place from which ore is extracted)

Synonyms

chombo

References

Klein-Arendt, Reinhard (2000), “The Iron Crafts of the Swahili from the Perspective of Historical Semantics”, in Swahili Forum‎, volume 7, pages 153–204