Etymology

Chichewa

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Today it means: The Bantu language of the Chewa tribe belonging to the Bantu linguistic family and one of Malawi’s national tongues promoted as the country’s lingua franca. Full definition →

Chichewa Chicheŵá ← Proto-Bantu *kɪ̀-
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The story

  1. Proto-Bantu*kɪ̀-
  2. Chichewachi-
  3. ChichewaChi-
  4. ChichewaChicheŵá
  5. English todayChichewa

From Chichewa Chicheŵa, from chi- (“language”) + Cheŵa.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.