Reconstruction:Proto-Bantu/kám

This Proto-Bantu entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Bantu

Noun

*kám class 1

1. squeeze, wring

Descendants

• Northeast Savanna Bantu
  • Great Lakes Bantu
    • Nyoro (J11): omukama (“the Great Milker/King”)
    • Tooro (J12): omukama (“The Great Milker/King”)
    • Nyankole (J13): omukama (“The Milker/Lord”)
    • Haya (J22): omukama (“The Milker/King”)
    • Rwanda-Rundi (J61/62): umukámyi (“the milker”), gukáma (“to milk”)
  • Thagiicu
    • Meru (E53): gukama (“to milk”)
  • Northeast Coast Bantu
    • Swahili (G42): kukama (“to milk”)
• Shona (S10): kukámá (“to milk”)
• Chichewa (N31): kukáma (“to milk”)

• Southern Bantu
  • Nguni
    • Phuthi (S404): -kgáma (“to milk”)
    • Zulu (S42): khama (“squeeze, press, express, to wring out”)
    • Northern Ndebele (S44): khama (“to choke”)

References

http://sumale.vjf.cnrs.fr/NC/Public/pdf/PB92list-Shadeberg.pdf https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Proto-Bantu_reconstructions