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Kifu

Noun class IIIadjectiveReviewedpage 121

Definitions

1
Extinct; finished; dead.
PT Extinto; acabado; morto.·FR Éteint; terminé; mort.

Noun class III

ki- / i-

Things, and all augmentatives.

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Death & mourning

Kibundu — Blow; strike.
Kisakanye — Slaughtered; massacred.
Kukumbama — To be moribund, in one's final moments.
Kufwa — To cease to live
Ditumba — Tomb.
Múfi — Susceptible to death.
Kuxikuka — To have a fatal syncope. To die without time for anything.
Mufwe — That dies; dying.
Akulu — The deceased; the dead; the ancestors; the forebears.
Kijibha — Homicide; murder; violent death.

Source · Assis Júnior (1940s), page 121 (right)

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