kampuni
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Luhya[edit]
Noun[edit]
kampuni
- company (in legal context, a corporation)
Swahili[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English company.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun[edit]
kampuni (n class, plural kampuni)
- company (in legal context, a corporation)
References[edit]
- ^ Petzell, Malin (2005) “Expanding the Swahili vocabulary”, in Africa & Asia[1], 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’.”