komwa

Tumbuka

Etymology

From -koma (“to kill”) +‎ -wa (“passive suffix”).

Verb

-komwa (infinitive kukomwa)

  1. passive of -koma
    1. to suffer (e.g. famine, hunger, fatigue)

References

  • William Y. Turner (1996), Tumbuka/Tonga-English and English - Tumbuka/Tonga Dictionary‎[1], Central Africana Limited, page 51
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.