mweska

Tumbuka

Etymology

From mwa (“to drink”) +‎ -eska (“causative suffix for monosyllabic verbs”). Cognate with Chichewa -mwetsa (“to cause to drink”) and Yao -mwesya (“to cause to drink”). Also a cognate with Swahili -nywesha (“to cause to drink”) which comes from the main Proto-Bantu stem.

Verb

-mweska (infinitive kumweska)

  1. causative of -mwa
    1. to assist someone with drinking
    2. to force/coerce someone to drink

References

Jean Josephine Chavula, Verbal Derivation and Valency in Citumbuka - The -isk causative suffix, 2016

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