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maiti
a word from vocabulary
Swahili
by
Thilo Schadeberg
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Word form
maiti
LWT meaning(s)
the corpse
Word meaning
corpse
Grammatical info
n 9/10 (agreement 1/2)
Analyzability
unanalyzable
Age
pre-modern Swahili [1] (800–1940)
Loanword Information
Borrowed status
1. clearly borrowed
Source words
mait, mayyit; maita(t)
'dead; corpse'
Arabic
Effect
No information
Salience
Present in pre-contact environment
Contact situation
Indian Ocean [1]
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