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The term * mkunga carries an additional underlying meaning, that only people who have been initiated can bestow such lessons to younger generations.
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The mkunga (the girl's instructor) sings "mwali wangu, mwali wangu" (my mwali).
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Zigua kungwi, ma - "one who has had a certain illness previously"; Bondei (Seuta) kungwi, plus same term in Swahili and Ruvu, as well as in Nyanja namkungwi; Proto-Kaskazi * mkunga "midwife/birth attendant"; also in Lambya and Mabia; Gogo munkunga "circumciser," "sponsor of girl initiates."
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The proto-Kaskazi term * mkunga appears to have named both the role of an older person and that of "midwives/birth attendants."
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