ntthu

Makhuwa

Regional variants of ntthu
eMakuana mutthú
eMarevone múthu
eMeeto ńtthu
eMpamela ńthu
eMwaja ntthúle
eNahara ńtthu
eNlai nthú
eRati ńtthu
eSaaka ńtthu

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀ntʊ̀.

Noun

ńtthu class 1 (plural átthu class 2) (Emeeto, Enahara, Erati, Esaaka)

  1. person

References

  • Jenneke van der Wal (2009) Word order and information structure in Makhuwa-Enahara (PhD thesis)[1], Leiden University, page 39
  • Alaudino J. R. Campos et al. (2009) “ntthu”, in Vocabulário de eMakhuwa eMeeto [Vocabulary of Emeetto]‎[2], Nampula: SIL Mozambique, page 93
  • Kenneth Brown et al. (2015) “ntthu”, in Vocabulario Temático de Enahara-Português-English[3], Nampula: SIL Mozambique, page 1