IV. WORDS IN THEIR CONTEXT.
Note :
At the insistent request of some English-speaking visitors, I was forced to translate this lexicon from French to English. It’s a colossal job that took me a lot of time, I applied myself and tried to do my best. Despite this, since English is not my usual language, there could be some translation errors here and there. If you find any, do not hesitate to report them to me by writing to me through the contact page of this website.
Thank you in advance !
PRELIMINARY NOTE.
The words presented in the list below may have different spellings depending on the Kikongo dialect used by the speaker. This is how we can have the vowel “u” instead of “o”, the vowel “i” instead of “e”, the consonant “g” instead of “v” or anything else. In the Lari for example, the syllable “ki” at the beginning of a word can be replaced by “tshi” as in “tshitoko”/”kitoko” (beauty) or in “ntshila”/”nkila” (tail). Listening to our Bazombo brothers, I found out that for them the “b” of “bantu” is transformed into “h” or “w” to hear “hantu”/”wantu”, “hana”/”wana” or “heto”/”weto” which also says “yeto”, so you have only to know it and to take it into account in the search for words, in any case this makes the richness of our language and does not prevent us from understanding each other very well and being able to dialogue.
Note: The “/” sign in the word definition separates two definitions of the same word depending on how it is pronounced.
In this section, the words in their context are divided into 7 parts accessible through the sub-menu associated with this page and which appears when you point to the title of the current page in the main menu of the Kikongo space. You can then access the list of words classified according to their context and which can be found in one of the following 7 subsections :
1) Words in their context part 1/7 : Colors, Spirituality, Family and Politics
2) Words in their context part 2/7 : Humain and animal body
3) Words in their context part 3/7 : Animal kingdom
4) Words in their context part 4/7 : Vegetal kingdom
5) Words in their context part 5/7 : At home 1-2 (a-l)
6) Words in their context part 6/7 : At home 2-2 (m-z)
7) Words in their context part 7/7 : Neologisms, Sciences and Techniques
