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Nyassa|naɪˈæsə, nj-|
Also Nyasa.
a. Name of a people in Malawi.
b. A member of this people. Also attrib. or as adj.
1849C. Pickering Races of Man ix. 197 The N'yasa, who inhabit the islands and perhaps the further shores of the Great Lake, seemed to be the most distant tribe known at Zanzibar. 1883R. N. Cust Sk. Mod. Lang. Afr. II. xii. 330 Rebman..employed..a slave, whom he imagined to be a Swahili, but he overheard him speaking a totally different language, and upon inquiry he proved to be a Wa-Nyassa. 1887A. C. Madan Kiungani ii. 30 We had never seen a single European in my time... They are called in the Nyasa language ‘wan'tu oyela’ meaning ‘white man’. 1912C. T. Domingo Let. 17 Mar. in Shepperson & Price Independent African (1958) Plate 11 (betw. pp. 158 and 159) It may take sometimes [sic] to possess jewels of Independance [sic] among we [sic] the Nyassas. Yours, lovely. For Africa. 1959Listener 24 Sept. 471/1 A Nyasa is hardly thought to be a man until he has gone off to work for some years in the Johannesburg gold-mines. |