Where does “uMgqibelo” come from?

uMgqibelo (Xhosa) comes from Xhosa gqibela, from Xhosa -ela, from Proto-Bantu -ɪda — Suffix for forming the applicative form of verbs.

uMgqibelo (Xhosa): Saturday

Definitions

  1. Saturday

Ancestry of “uMgqibelo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Xhosagqibelato finish off, to conclude
2Xhosa-elaForms applicative verbs, meaning to do something...
3Proto-Bantu-ɪdaSuffix for forming the applicative form of verbs

Words derived from “uMgqibelo”

Every word from Proto-Bantu -ɪda →Every word from Xhosa -ela →Every word from Xhosa gqibela →