ukurasa wa nyumbani

Swahili

Etymology

Calque of English home page.[1]

Noun

ukurasa wa nyumbani (u class, no plural)

  1. home page

References
  1. Petzell, Malin (2005) “Expanding the Swahili vocabulary”, in Africa & Asia‎, volume 5, archived from the original on 2009-11-29, page 88 of 85-107: “In calques, the source language model is replicated by the target language, as in ukurasa wa nyumbani ‘homepage’.”
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