ba-

Amasi

Noun

ba-

  1. a plural prefix

References

  • Africana Marburgensia (1973)

Hausa

Prefix

bà-

  1. A prefix indicating ethnic or geographical origin or, less often, someone's trade.

Nzadi

Prefix

ba-

  1. A clitic added to the plural forms of nouns that are identical to the singular forms in order to mark plurality explicitly.
    1. Added to the plural forms of some nouns that do have distinct plural forms in order to express that various individuals are meant.

Further reading

  • Crane, Thera; Larry Hyman; Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN

Phuthi

Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *bá-, from Proto-Bantu *bá-.

Prefix

ba-

  1. they; class 2 subject concord.
  2. them; class 2 object concord.

Swazi

Etymology 1

From Proto-Nguni *ába-, from Proto-Bantu *bá-bà-.

Prefix

ba-

  1. Class 2 noun prefix.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Nguni *bá-, from Proto-Bantu *bá-.

Prefix

ba-

  1. they; class 2 subject concord.
  2. them; class 2 object concord.

Xhosa

Etymology 1

From Proto-Nguni *bá-, from Proto-Bantu *bá-.

Prefix

ba-

  1. they; class 2 subject concord.
  2. them; class 2 object concord.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Nguni *bá-, from Proto-Bantu *báá-.

Prefix

ba-

  1. of; class 2 possessive concord.

Etymology 3

From Proto-Nguni *bá-, from Proto-Bantu *bʊ́á-

Prefix

ba-

  1. of; class 14 possessive concord.

Zulu

Etymology 1

From Proto-Bantu *bà-.

Prefix

ba-

  1. Class 2 simple noun prefix.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Nguni *bá-, from Proto-Bantu *bá-.

Prefix

ba-

  1. they; class 2 subject concord.
  2. them; class 2 object concord.

Etymology 3

From Proto-Nguni *bá-, from Proto-Bantu *báá-.

Prefix

ba-

  1. of; class 2 possessive concord.

Etymology 4

From Proto-Nguni *bá-, from Proto-Bantu *bʊ́á-

Prefix

ba-

  1. of; class 14 possessive concord.
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