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Reconstruction:Proto-Bantu/ìbídà

This Proto-Bantu entry contains reconstructed words 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 wider Benue-Congo include: Tivi 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): dibíla (“oil palm; clump of palm nuts”), ebíla (“clump of palm nuts”)
  • Babole: dibíla (“oil palm”)
  • Benga: mbiya (“black-fruited oil palm”)
  • Bube: öbiilá (“date palm”)
  • Bwa: mbia (“oil palm”)
  • Duala: mbía (“palm nut”)
  • Libinza: mbíla (“oil palm”)
  • Lingala: lobíla (“palm nut”)
  • Mbonge Oroko: líjá (“oil palm”)
  • Mokpwe: mbía (“palm nut”)
  • Myene: oyílá (“oil palm”), ezílá (“clump of palm nuts”)
  • Songo: oyila (“black-fruited oil palm”), ńdzyá (“palm nut”)
  • Tunen: 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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