Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA tribal chief among the Tswana people of southern Africa.
Etymology tree Proto-Bantu *nkócì Tswana kgosibor. English kgosi Borrowed from Tswana kgosi (“chief, chieftain; king”), from Proto-Bantu *nkócì (“lion”). Doublet of inkosi.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Doublet mentioninkosien
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