i-Ostreliya

Zulu

Etymology

Borrowed from English Australia.

Pronunciation

Noun

i-Ostreliya? class 5

  1. Australia (a country consisting of a main island, the island of Tasmania and other smaller islands, located in Oceania; historically, a collection of former colonies of the British Empire)
  2. (geology) Australia (a continent consisting of the land on the Australian tectonic plate, i.e. Australia, New Guinea and intervening islands)

Inflection

Class 5, short locative (locative e-Ostreliya)
singular plural
full form i-Ostreliya
simple form li-Ostreliya
locative e-Ostreliya
copulative yi-Ostreliya
Possessive forms
singular plural
modifier substantive modifier substantive
class 1 we-Ostreliya owe-Ostreliya
class 2 be-Ostreliya abe-Ostreliya
class 3 we-Ostreliya owe-Ostreliya
class 4 ye-Ostreliya eye-Ostreliya
class 5 le-Ostreliya ele-Ostreliya
class 6 e-Ostreliya awe-Ostreliya
class 7 se-Ostreliya ese-Ostreliya
class 8 ze-Ostreliya eze-Ostreliya
class 9 ye-Ostreliya eye-Ostreliya
class 10 ze-Ostreliya eze-Ostreliya
class 11 lwe-Ostreliya olwe-Ostreliya
class 14 be-Ostreliya obe-Ostreliya
class 15 kwe-Ostreliya okwe-Ostreliya
class 17 kwe-Ostreliya okwe-Ostreliya