Reconstruction:Proto-Bantu/njàmbé

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

Etymology

Possible cognates outside Bantu include Akan Nyame (“God”). Probably ultimately from Proto-Atlantic-Congo *-àmb- (“to begin”).

Noun

*njàmbé class 1a[1]

  1. God

Descendants

  • Bangala (C30A): Nyambe
  • Duala (A24): Ńambe
  • Punu (B43): Nyambye
  • Mbukushu (K333): Nyambi
  • Northeast Bantu:
    • Great Lakes Bantu
      • Luganda (J15): Nambi (“daughter of God”)
      • Haya (J22): Nyakalembe (“Goddess of Agriculture”)

References

  1. ^ Entry 3196 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3
  • An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400‎[1], 1998, page 159
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