kampuni

Luhya

Noun

kampuni

  1. company (in legal context, a corporation)

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from English company.[1]

Pronunciation
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Noun

kampuni (n class, plural kampuni)

  1. company (in legal context, a corporation)

References
  1. Petzell, Malin (2005) “Expanding the Swahili vocabulary”, in Africa & Asia‎, volume 5, archived from the original on 2009-11-29, page 88 of 85-107: “Loanwords involve a total morphemic incorporation of single or compound words with a varying amount of phonemic substitution. The phonemic adoption increases over time which is shown in a word like kampuni ‘company’.”
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