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Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

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English shilingi

Borrowed from Swahili shilingi, from English shilling.

shilingi (plural **shilingi)

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

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Borrowed from English shilling.[1][2]

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

5. ^ 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).”

6. ^ Kusimba, Chapurukha M. (2024), Swahili Worlds in Globalism (Elements in the Global Middle Ages), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 78