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Kixikela

Noun class IIInounReviewedpage 155

Definitions

1
Darkness; gloom.
PT Escuridão; trevas.·FR Obscurité ; ténèbres.

Noun class III

ki- / i-

Things, and all augmentatives.

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Fire & light

Kufulamana — To be dark, dull, without shine.
Kuvúnda — To darken; to grow dark; to become dark.
Kithômbe — Darkness; obscurity.
Diêji — Moonlight; brightness.
Úsuku — Night.
Kuvungununa — To lighten; to attenuate the darkness, to make (the morning)
Kulómba — To cloud, to mist.
Kufulamanesa — To cast darkness over.
Mukengeji — Radiance; brilliance.
Kilúmbu — Fulgent; that which shines.

Source · Assis Júnior (1940s), page 155 (left)

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