-wa

Kiswahili

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-wa

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Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-úa. Cognate with Tumbuka -wa (“passive suffix”) and Herero -w- (“passive extension”).

suffix -iwa/-ewa · -liwa/-lewa

morpheme, passive, suffix passive suffix -tuma (“to send”) + -wa → -tumwa (“to be sent”)

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"-wa." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/sw/-wa. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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-wa. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/sw/-wa

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"-wa." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/sw/-wa.

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@misc{wa_2026,
  title = {-wa},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sw/-wa},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}