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Reconstruction:Proto-Bantu/-tákuna
Proto-Bantu
Alternative forms
- *-cákuna
Verb
*-tákuna[1]
- to chew
Descendants
From *-tákuna:
- Chichewa: -tafuna
- Ndonga: -taasina
- Rwanda-Rundi: -tapfuna
- Swahili: -tafuna
From *-cákuna:
- Southern Bantu:
- Nguni:
- Xhosa: -hlafuna
- Zulu: -hlafuna
- Sotho-Tswana:
- Sotho: hlafuna
- Tswana: tlhafuna
- Nguni:
References
- Entry 2742 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3