Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

kʌthemnɛ

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: kʌthem-nɛ
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Synonym of Temne, Mel language spoken by the Temne.

Example Sentences

"KʌThemnɛ is the major language spoken in Northern Sierra Leone, by well over a million first language speakers."
"But Kʌ-Themnɛ uses the sentence, i yi rǝ kǝ der “I am in the process of/on my way, coming’ to talk about the event as it happens at the same time the speaker is uttering the sentence. Because KʌThemnɛ employs two different expressions to talk about these two different events in time, native speakers of KʌThemnɛ find the Krio sentence, a de kam inadequate to serve the purpose of i yi rǝ kǝ der."

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Temne KʌThemnɛ.

Inflected Forms

Kȧthemnɛ (alternative)

Synonyms

Temne Mel language spoken by the Temne

Questions

What does kʌthemnɛ mean?: Synonym of Temne, Mel language spoken by the Temne.
Where does kʌthemnɛ come from?: Unadapted borrowing from Temne KʌThemnɛ.

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