< Reconstruction:Proto-Bantu
Reconstruction:Proto-Bantu/njʊ̀gʊ́
Proto-Bantu
Etymology
An innovation in Proto-Bantu, of unknown origin.
Noun
*njʊ̀gʊ́ class 9 (plural *njʊ̀gʊ́ class 10)[1]
- Bambara groundnut, Vigna subterranea
Descendants
- Boma-Dzing:
- Nzadi (B865): edzuu
- Northeast Bantu:
- Thagiicu:
- Kamba (E55): nzuu
- Kikuyu (E51): njũgũ
- Great Lakes Bantu:
- Ikizu (J402): ɨnzʉgʉ
- Kabwa (J405): enjugu
- Northeast Coast Bantu:
- Swahili (G42): njugu
- Thagiicu:
- Shona (S10): nzungu (irregular)
References
- Entry 1621 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3
- Bostoen, Koen (2014), "Wild trees in the subsistence economy of early Bantu speech communities: a historical-linguistic approach", in Dorian Q. Fuller and Mary Anne Murray (eds.), African Flora, Past Cultures and Archaeobotany. Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop for African Archaeobotany, London, 3–5 July, 2006 (Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press), 129–140.