Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe name used in the 19th and early 20th centuries for a poisonous tree native to Mozambique whose bark was being studied for its pharmaceutical properties. Later sources determined it to be the same as sassywood, Erythrophleum suaveolens, to which it was often compared by earlier writers.
Etymology tree Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jábì Swahili mwavibor.? English muawi From Swahili mwavi or a cognate in some other Bantu language.
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- Borrowed-form mentionmwavisw
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