KAFFIR-ENGLISHI DICTIONARY:



 INCLUDING THE XOSA AND ZULU DIALECTS.


 A.

 A. This letter has in Kaffir the
 Italian sound of a, with both short
 and long quantity, as in the English
 words fatten and father.
 1. It forms the termination of all roots
 of verbs, of which it is the only
 flexible part in forming the tenses
 of the verb. Ukuti and Ukutsho
 are exceptions to this general rule.
2. It is the relative pro. of 1st and
 2nd spec. plu. Abantu abaham-
 bayo: People who are moving.
 Amahashe abalekayo: Horses which
 are running.
3. It is the sign of the poss. case of
 nouns with the prefix ama. Ama-
 hasbe alendoda: Horses of that man.
 Amazwi ake: His words. It also
 forms the poss. case of the relative
 pro. who or which, when referring
 to a noun of spec. 2, plur. Ama-
 doda ankomo zininzi: Men whose
 cattle are many.
4. It is the verbal prefix of 2nd. spec.
 plur. ind. mood, pres. tense. Ateta,
 Ayateta : They speak, or are speak-
 ing. Also of 2nd spec. plural past
 indefinite tense, ind. mood. Ama-
 hashe abaleka: The horses ran. It
 is also the verbal prefix of the sub-
 junctive mood, spec. 1st sing. and
 spec. 2nd plu. Ukuze apile: That
 he might live. Ukuba amahashe
 abaleke: That the horses might run.
5. It is a privative, used in forming
 the negative verbal prefixes. An-
 diteti: I do not speak.
 B


 6. It is the salutation used in saluting
 a chief by those inferior to him in
 rank. A! Kama : Hail Kama.
 A! Nkosi: Hail 0 chief.
 ABA, x. Dem. pro. These. 1st spec. plu.
 Abantu aba, or aba bantu, These
 persons.
 ABA, x. Neg. verbal prefix of spec. 1st
 plu. pre. tense, indicative mood, and
 past indefinite tense. Abavumi:
 They will not consent. Abateta:
 They did not speak.
ukw ABA, v. t. x. z. To allot, apportion,
 distribute.
 ABAONE, A negative form prefixed to
 nouns thus. Abangenatyala: Those
 without guilt. Abangenanto:
 Those who have nothing. Abange-
 nasono: Those without sin.
 ABANGEBANI, x. Those who are nobody;
 persons of little account.
 ABAYA, x. Dem. pro. spec. 1st. plu,
 Those there; those yonder. Abaya
 'bantu: Those people yonder.
 ABAYI, x. Neg. tense form of verb, 1st
 spec. plu, future time, prefixed to
 the infinitive of the verb. They will
 not. Abayi kuhamba: They will not
 go
 ABE, x. Tense form of the verb, past
 time with the relative pronoun pre-
 fixed. Spec. 1st sing. Iminyaka
 abe hleli ngayo: The years of his
 life. Lit. The years which he lived.
 Also of spec. 2nd plu. Amadoda abe
 fikayo: The men who arrived.
ukw ABEKA, v. n. x. z. To divide or arrange
 as by spontaneous or internal
 action into portions. Abantu babeka