"Mwanamke"

Translation: A Woman

[nahuatl1939]

why does WOMEN make WANAWAKE and not WANAMKE, like MWANAUME makes WANAUME ? is there a rule or is it just irregular and has to be learned by heart ?

[hazzin13]

Yes, wanawake is irregular and it's because it's actually a compound word. Mwana means child, mke means wife. When you put both in plural it becomes wana+wake.

[AnitaL2018]

thanks..makes sense now