nyengo

Chichewa

Etymology

Cognate with Tumbuka nyengo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɲe.ᵑɡo/

Noun

nyengo class 9 (plural nyengo class 10)

  1. season
  2. weather
    1. climate
  3. time
  4. period
  5. moment
  6. occasion
  7. age
  8. era, epoch
  9. span

Derived terms

  • Chinyengoyatsopano (“New Age spirituality”)
  • nyengo imemeyo (“former time”)
  • nyengo ya zaka makumi khumi (“century”)
  • nyengo yachisanu (“cold season”)
  • Nyengo Yakale (“Antiquity”)
  • Nyengo Yapakati (“Middle Ages”)
  • nyengo yosatha (“eternity”)
  • nyengo youma (“dry season”)
  • nyengo yoyamba (“primeval period”)
  • nyengo yozizira (“winter, cold season”)
  • nyengo zonse (“eternity”)

References

  • Steven Paas (2016), Oxford Chichewa-English/English - Chichewa Dictionary‎[1], Oxford University Press, page 428

Tumbuka

Etymology

Cognate with Chichewa nyengo.

Noun

nyengo class 9 (plural nyengo class 10)

  1. time

Derived terms

References

  • William Y. Turner (1996), Tumbuka/Tonga-English and English - Tumbuka/Tonga Dictionary‎[2], Central Africana Limited, page 94
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