mgodi

Chichewa

Etymology

Ultimately a borrowing from a Southern Bantu language; compare Zulu umgodi (“hole, mine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mˈɡo.ɗi/

Noun

mgodi class 3 (plural migodi class 4)

1. mine (place from which ore is extracted)

Swahili

Etymology

Not present in the early dictionaries (Krapf and Madan). Ultimately a 20th-century borrowing from a Southern Bantu language; compare Zulu umgodi (“hole, mine”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Noun

mgodi class III (plural migodi class IV)

1. mine (place from which ore is extracted)

Synonyms

• chombo

References

• Klein-Arendt, Reinhard (2000) “The Iron Crafts of the Swahili from the Perspective of Historical Semantics”, in Swahili Forum‎^[1], volume 7, pages 153–204