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njaa
a word from vocabulary
Swahili
by
Thilo Schadeberg
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Word form
njaa
LWT meaning(s)
to be hungry
the famine
Word meaning
hunger, famine
Grammatical info
n 9
Comments on word
-ona njaa [see hunger]
Analyzability
unanalyzable
Age
earlier Bantu [1] (-3000–1)
Loanword Information
Borrowed status
4. very little evidence for borrowing
Source words
ğāˁa
'be hungry'
Arabic
Unidentifiable
Arabic
ğūˁ
'be hungry'
Hindi-Urdu
ǧūa
'be hungry'
Persian
Effect
No information
Salience
Present in pre-contact environment
Contact situation
No information [1]
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