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85The term mwana nya nhiti, when translated, means something to the effect of "child of wood."
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In cases where words attest in distinct languages but are not reconstructed to a proto-language period, no star precedes the word, for example, mwana nya nhiti "fertility medicine."
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Zigua mwana ywa magati "the middle child (of a family or in a line)."
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The young woman cared for the mwana nya nhiti or mwana sesele as if each were a small child.
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Note 74: Proto-Mashariki * - sesel - "to pour; to menstruate"; East Ruvu mwana sesele "fertility medicine (doll)," lit., "child of menstruation"; e.g.,
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In the first place, the mwana nya nhiti ( "child of wood") incorporates an aspect of ancient Bantu ideas of wood as having medicinal properties, which in Bantu contexts did not preclude the power or "medicine" of ancestors.
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The * mwali initiate showed her readiness by watching and caring for the mwana nya nhiti or mwana sesele.
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Those who spoke our language called us “mwana ya ngando” or “crocodile kids.”
In the Shadow of Freedom Tchicaya Missamou 2010
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In East Ruvu communities mwana nya nhiti and mwana sesele were medicinal implements worn and tended to by * mwali initiates during seclusion instruction. 157 While they may have had the outward form of a doll-like figure, they were much more than a doll.
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The rebel alliance's "finance minister" Mawapanga mwana Nanga, flanked by AMFI officials, described the three new projects to be sited in Kolwezi, some 250 kilometers west of here, and nearby
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