Where does “Chicheŵa” come from?

Chicheŵa (English) comes from Chichewa Chicheŵa, from Chichewa chi-, from Proto-Bantu kɪ̀- — Class 7 noun prefix.

Chicheŵa (English): The Bantu language of the Chewa tribe belonging to the Bantu linguistic family and one of Malawi’s national tongues promoted as the country’s lingua franca

Definitions

  1. The Bantu language of the Chewa tribe belonging to the Bantu linguistic family and one of Malawi’s national tongues promoted as the country’s lingua franca

Ancestry of “Chicheŵa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1ChichewaChicheŵaChichewa
2Chichewachi-language prefix; language
3Proto-Bantukɪ̀-Class 7 noun prefix
Every word from Proto-Bantu kɪ̀- →Every word from Chichewa chi- →Every word from Chichewa Chicheŵa →