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Reconstruction:Proto-Bantu/ìbídà

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

Potential cognates in Volta-Congo include: Tiv ivile (“oil palm”), Akan abɛ́ (“oil palm”), Edo ivin (“nut”).

Noun

*ìbídà class 5 (plural *màbídà class 6)[1]

  1. oil palm (Elaeis guineensis)

See also

Descendants
  • Aka (Central Africa) (C104): dibíla (“oil palm; clump of palm nuts”), ebíla (“clump of palm nuts”)
  • Babole (C101): dibíla (“oil palm”)
  • Benga (A34): mbiya (“black-fruited oil palm”)
  • Bube (A31): öbiilá (“date palm”)
  • Bwa (C44): mbia (“oil palm”)
  • Duala (A24): mbía (“palm nut”)
  • Libinza (C321): mbíla (“oil palm”)
  • Lingala (C30B): lobíla (“palm nut”), mbíla (“oil palm”)
  • Mbonge Oroko (A101): líjá (“oil palm”)
  • Mokpwe (A22): mbía (“palm nut”)
  • Myene (B11): oyílá (“oil palm”), ezílá (“clump of palm nuts”)
  • Nsong (B85d): oyila (“black-fruited oil palm”), ńdzyá (“palm nut”)
  • Tunen (A44): nibíl (“oil palm”), umíl (“palm nut”), ibíl (“ripe clump of palm nuts”)

References
  1. Entry 233 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3
  • Bostoen, Koen (2005), "A diachronic onomasiological approach to early Bantu oil palm vocabulary." Studies in African Linguistics 34 (2): 143–188.
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