chwa

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chwa

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Inherited from Proto-Sabaki *-cwa. Cognate with Ngazidja Comorian -tswa and Giryama -tswa.

Further etymology uncertain. Possibly from Common Bantu *-còa (from which Zulu -hlwa), but Nurse & Hinnebusch consider it a Northeast Coast lexical innovation derived from *-kya (“to dawn”).

verb -chwa · kuchwa · kutokuchwa · kuchweni

of the sun to set, to go down
Opposite: cha

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@misc{chwa_2026,
  title = {chwa},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sw/chwa},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}