ukurasa wa nyumbani

Swahili

Etymology

Calque of English home page.[1]

Noun

ukurasa wa nyumbani class XI (no plural)

  1. home page

References

  1. ^ Petzell, Malin (2005) “Expanding the Swahili vocabulary”, in Africa & Asia‎[1], volume 5, →ISSN, archived from the original on 29 November 2009, page 88 of 85-107: “In calques, the source language model is replicated by the target language, as in ukurasa wa nyumbani ‘homepage’.”
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