fura.
to swell
Meaning & usage
to swell
Where this word comes from
Nurse & Hinnebusch link it with Chimwiini -fuura and list it among the “Lexical innovations characterizing [Northern dialects]”. They suggest Proto-Cushitic *fuur- (“to puff, to blow”), Proto-Bantu *-tùuda (“to swell”) (otherwise only found in Western Bantu), and Proto-Bantu *-púda (“froth over”).
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