Etymology

Rwanda

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Rwanda-Rundi u Rwanda
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The story

  1. Rwanda-Rundi · borrowed fromu Rwanda
  2. English todayRwanda

From Rwanda-Rundi u Rwanda from the archaic verb -anda (“to expand”). Compare Zulu anda (“to multiply”).

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