Reconstruction:Proto-Bantu/kɪ̀kʊ̀á
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Proto-Bantu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Cognate with the Lower Cross River word for Dioscorea dumetorum.
Noun
[edit]*kɪ̀kʊ̀á class 7 (plural *bìkʊ̀á class 8)[1]
- yam, probably Dioscorea cayennensis
Descendants
[edit]- Northwest Bantu
- Central-Western Bantu
- East Bantu
References
[edit]- Bostoen, Koen (2014), "Wild trees in the subsistence economy of early Bantu speech communities: a historical-linguistic approach", in Dorian Q. Fuller and Mary Anne Murray (eds.), African Flora, Past Cultures and Archaeobotany. Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop for African Archaeobotany, London, 3–5 July, 2006 (Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press), 129–140.