-etsa

Chichewa

Etymology

Cognate with Tumbuka -eska (“causative suffix”), Swahili -esha (“causative suffix”) and Yao -esya (“causative suffix”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈe.t͡sa/

Suffix

-etsa

1. Causative suffix for verbs where the penultimate vowel of the stem is either 'e' or 'o'.
2. Causative suffix for monosyllabic verbs.

Derived terms

Chichewa terms suffixed with -etsa

bweretsa

dyetsa

fetsa

gonetsa

gwetsa

kongoletsa

mwetsa

onetsa

phetsa

seketsa

tenthetsa

yendetsa

See also

• -itsa (“Causative suffix for verbs where the penultimate vowel of the stem is either 'a', 'i' or 'u'”).

References

• Steven Paas (2016), Oxford Chichewa-English/English - Chichewa Dictionary‎, Oxford University Press, page 137