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ngano
a word from vocabulary
Swahili
by
Thilo Schadeberg
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Word form
ngano
LWT meaning(s)
the wheat
Word meaning
wheat
Grammatical info
n 9/10
Analyzability
unanalyzable
Age
pre-modern Swahili [1] (800–1940)
Loanword Information
Borrowed status
3. perhaps borrowed
Source words
gandum
'wheat'
Hindi-Urdu
ngam
'wheat'
Persian
ɠaũ
'wheat'
Persian
gʰaũ
'wheat'
Persian
Effect
No information
Salience
Present only since contact
Contact situation
No information [1]
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