Tag: poison

Poison?

Post author By White Zulu
Post date February 28, 2015
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Last weekend saw the breaking of an interesting story, about how one of the president’s wives allegedly poisoned him. It also saw a very interesting response from the Office of the Presidency, via our arch-Newspeaker, Mac Maharaj. I didn’t hear the response in English, but ngesiZulu (paraphrasing except for the important bit at the end): […]

Tags isihlungu, MaNtuli, Msholozi, poison, ubuthi, ukudlisa, ushevu, Zuma

Linguistics / ubuLimi

*hlung {word route}

Post author By White Zulu
Post date December 13, 2012
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There are two separate ideas that converge in this word, along with the strange shapes that they make with your mouth when you say it. The first idea is that of ‘winnowing’ or sifting, from the ur-Bantu stem -ĸuŋga, meaning ‘sift’. And the second centres on what I would argue is the nominalised form of […]

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