mche

Pare

Etymology

m- nominal class prefix + root che

Noun

m-ché

1. woman
2. wife

References

• Oskar Baumann, Usambara und seine Nachbargebiete (1891) (mche)
• Ernst Kotz, Grammatik des Chasu in Deutsch-Ostafrika: (Pare-gebirge) (1909) (mche)
• Bantu Basic Vocabulary Database, citing data from G. Philippson, Kagaya, Kaehler-Meyer, Hohenberger; entered by Gisèle Teil-Dautrey (m̀-tʃ̑é)
• Rafiki Yohana, A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Variation in a Rural African Community: Chasu in Same District, Tanzania (2009)

Swahili

Pronunciation

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Noun

mche class III (plural miche class IV)

1. seedling, sapling
2. prism