< Reconstruction:Proto-Bantu
Reconstruction:Proto-Bantu/ngòìnà
Proto-Bantu
Noun
*ngòìnà class 9 (plural *ngòìnà class 10)[1]
- crocodile
Descendants
- Nyasa:
- Chichewa: ng'ona
- Tumbuka: ng'wina
- Northeast Bantu:
- Great Lakes Bantu:
- Rwanda-Rundi: ingona
- Kuria: ɛɛŋɔina
- Luganda: eggoonya
- Northeast Coast Bantu:
- Swahili: ngwena
- Great Lakes Bantu:
- Shona: ngwena
- Southern Bantu:
- Nguni: *íngwenya
- Northern Ndebele: ingwenya
- Swazi: íngwenya
- Xhosa: íngwenya
- Zulu: íngwenya
- Sotho-Tswana:
- Northern Sotho: kwena
- Sotho: kwena/koena
- Tswana: kwena
- Tswa-Ronga:
- Tsonga: ngwenya
- Venda: ngweṋa
- Nguni: *íngwenya
References
- Entry 7157 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3