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Reconstruction:Proto-Bantu/mbɪ̀gá
Proto-Bantu
Noun
*mbɪ̀gá class 9 (plural *mbɪ̀gá class 10)[1][2]
- pot
Descendants
From mbɪ̀gá:
- Bondei (G24): wiga
- Luganda (J15): ebbiga
- Rwanda-Rundi (J61): urubiga
- Sukuma (F31): lubiga
From mbɪ̀já:
- Duala (A24): mbeá
- Ewondo (A72): mvě
- Chichewa (N31): mbiya
- Shona (S10): mbiya
- Swahili (G42): bia, kibia
- Southern Bantu:
- Chopi (S61): mbia
- Nguni:
- Swazi (S43): sitja
- Xhosa (S41): isitya
- Zulu (S42): isitsha
- Sotho-Tswana (diminutive):
- Northern Sotho (S32): sebjana
- Sotho (S33): sejana
- Tswana (S31): sejana
- Tsonga (S53): xibye, xibya
- Venda (S20): mbia, mbiana
References
- Entry 197 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3
- Reflexes of *mbɪ̀gá at the Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary Database