Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA member of any of the African ethnic groups that speak a Bantu language. · The largest African language family of the Niger-Congo group, spoken in much of Sub-Saharan Africa.
Borrowed from Proto-Bantu *bàntʊ̀ pl (“people”), as reconstructed by the 19th-century linguist Wilhelm Bleek.
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- Borrowed-form mention*bàntʊ̀bnt-pro
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