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Where does “yeba” come from?
yeba (Lingala) comes from Bangi yeba, from Proto-Bantu *-jíjɪba — to know.
yeba
(Lingala): to know
Definitions
to know
Ancestry of “yeba”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Bangi
yeba
to know
2
Proto-Bantu
*-jíjɪba
to know
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