ovava
Portuguese
[edit]Verb
[edit]ovava
Umbundu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Bantu *ìdìbà.
Noun
[edit]ovava class 6
Further reading
[edit]- Wesley Maier Stover, Observations Upon the Grammatical Structure and Use of the Umbundu (1885): if special attention is called to the locality of the subject, ovava mwapwa, the water (in a vessel) is all gone. In this instance, if no special attention were called to the locality of the water, the regular pronominal prefix of Class 6 would be used : ovava (v)apwa; the v generally dropping.
- William H. Sanders, William E. Fay, Vocabulary of the Umbundu Language (1885)
- W. C. Bell, Umbundu Tales, Angola, Southwest Africa (1922)