shilingi

shilingi

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH-der.
Proto-Germanic *skiljaną
Proto-Indo-European *-lósder.
Proto-Germanic *-ilaz
Proto-Indo-European *-n̥kʷo-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Germanic *-īnaz
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
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Proto-Germanic *-ingaz
Proto-Germanic *-ilingaz
Proto-Germanic *skillingaz
Old English sċilling
Middle English schilling
English shillingbor.
Swahili shilingibor.
English shilingi

    Borrowed from Swahili shilingi, from English shilling.

    Noun

    shilingi (plural shilingi)

    1. A unit of currency in East Africa, currently only in use by Tanzania, and divided into 100 senti.

    Swahili

    Alternative forms

    Etymology

      Borrowed from English shilling.[1][2]

      Pronunciation

      • Audio (Kenya):(file)

      Noun

      shilingi class IX (plural shilingi class X)

      1. shilingi (currency formerly used across East Africa, now only in Tanzania)
      2. shilling (former British unit of currency)
      3. (by extension, chiefly Tanzania) money
        Synonym: pesa
      4. (Kenya) scalp ringworm
        Synonym: (Tanzania) punye

      References

      1. ^ Mugane, John M. (2015), The Story of Swahili (Africa in World History), Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, →ISBN, page 55: “English terms for currencies, though appearing late in East African trading circles, now dominate in Swahili. These include pauni (pound) and shilingi (shilling, in the colonial currency), peni (coin), and more recently still dola (dollar).”
      2. ^ Kusimba, Chapurukha M. (2024), Swahili Worlds in Globalism (Elements in the Global Middle Ages), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 78
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