< Reconstruction:Proto-Bantu
Reconstruction:Proto-Bantu/dúmè
Proto-Bantu
Cognates outside Bantu includeProto-Grassfields *lúm` (“husband”)
Noun
*dúmè 9 (plural *ndúmè 10)[1]
- husband, male
Descendants
- Central Western Bantu
- Njila
- Umbundu (R11): ulume (“man”)
- West Coastal Bantu
- Nzadi (B865): olûm (“husband”)
- Luban
- Luba-Kasai (L31): múlumé (“man”)
- Njila
- East bantu
- Great Lakes Bantu
- Nande (J42): omúlüme (“man”)
- Great Lakes Bantu
References
- Entry 1183 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3