Reconstruction:Proto-Bantu/mʊ̀jòjò
Proto-Bantu
Noun
*mʊ̀jòjò class 3 (plural *mɪ̀jòjò class 4)[1]
Descendants
From mʊ̀jòjò:
- Northeast Bantu:
From mʊ̀jòjà:
- Luba-Katanga (L33): muya (“soul”)
- Northern Ndebele (S44): umoya (“wind, spirit”)
- Northern Sotho (S32): moya (“wind, spirit, soul”)
- Phuthi (S404): mmoya (“wind, spirit, soul”)
- Sotho (S33): moya (“wind, spirit”)
- Southern Ndebele (S407): umoya (“wind, spirit”)
- Swazi (S43): umoya (“wind, spirit”)
- Tswana (S31): moya (“wind, spirit”)
- Tsonga (S53): moya (“wind, spirit, soul”)
- Venda (S20): muya (“wind, spirit, soul”)
- Xhosa (S41): umoya (“wind, spirit”)
- Zulu (S42): umoya (“wind, spirit, soul”)