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Kuvwala

verbintransitiveReviewedpage 255

Portuguese spellingKúvuala

Definitions

  1. 1
    To leave (More vernacular, but less used.)

    PT Partir (É mais vernáculo, porém, menos usado.)·FR Partir (Plus vernaculaire, mais moins usité.)

    Seen in the folk-tales

    • Ki azuba kuvuala ana ê, ana akulu.When she had finished giving birth to her children, the children grew up.VIII · told by Musoki, a young Mu-suku man
    • Hombo iê ia muhatu imateka mu kuvuala, katé mu kuinii dia mavumu.His nanny-goat began to breed, until it had had ten gestations.XXVI · told by Francisco P. dos Santos Vandunem, a blind but gentlemanly old man of Loanda's native aristocracy, said to descend from a royal line of the A-Luá-lunga or A-bidi tribe.
Source · Assis Júnior (1940s), page 255 (right)\u00b7 modern spelling canonical, source spelling redirected