lengedwa

Chichewa

Etymology

From lenga (“to create”) +‎ -edwa (“passive suffix for verbs whose penultimate vowel is ‘e’”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɽeˈᵑɡe.ɗʷa/

Verb

-lengedwa (infinitive kuléngedwa)

  1. Passive form of -lenga
    1. to be created

Derived terms

  • Verbal derivations:
    • Negative: -salengedwa
    • Repetitive: -lengedwanso

Nyungwe

Etymology

From lenga (“to create”) +‎ -edwa (“passive suffix for verbs whose penultimate vowel is ‘e’”).

Verb

-lengedwa

  1. to be created.
    2019, John the Evangelist, translated by Wycliffe Bible Translators, Juwau 1:
    Bzinthu bzentse bzidalengedwa na iye, tsono palibe ciri-centse cidalengedwa mwakusaya iye.
    Through Him all things were made, without Him nothing was made that has been made.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.