-etsa

Chichewa

Etymology

Cognate with Tumbuka -eska (“causative suffix”), Swahili -esha (“causative suffix”) and Yao -esya (“causative suffix”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈe.t͡sa/

Suffix

-etsa

  1. Causative suffix for verbs where the penultimate vowel of the stem is either 'e' or 'o'.
  2. Causative suffix for monosyllabic verbs.

Derived terms

Chichewa terms suffixed with -etsa
bweretsa
dyetsa
fetsa
gonetsa
gwetsa
kongoletsa
mwetsa
onetsa
phetsa
tenthetsa
yendetsa

See also

  • -itsa (“Causative suffix for verbs where the penultimate vowel of the stem is either 'a', 'i' or 'u'”).

References

  • Steven Paas (2016) Oxford Chichewa-English/English - Chichewa Dictionary‎[1], Oxford University Press, page 137
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