Etymology

Chewa

C3H4E1W4A1

Today it means: A member of an African people inhabiting central Malawi and adjoining areas of Zambia and Mozambique. Full definition →

Chichewa Chicheŵá ← Proto-Bantu *kɪ̀-
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. ChichewaMcheŵá
  2. Proto-Bantu*kɪ̀-
  3. Chichewachi-
  4. ChichewaChi-
  5. ChichewaChicheŵá
  6. English todayChewa

From Chichewa Mcheŵa and Chicheŵa.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.