Reconstruction:Proto-Bantu/ngàdí

Etymology
Evidently a Bantu innovation, as no cognates outside of Narrow Bantu are known.

Noun

 * 1) palm nut or palm oil

Usage notes
The sense "blood" (likely in class 6) may be an innovation in Proto-Eastern Bantu; the proposed semantic motivation is the reddish colour of palm oil, which would be an ideal target for taboo replacement of an earlier word for "blood".

Descendants

 * Lungu
 * Ntandu
 * , ingazí
 * Lungu
 * Ntandu
 * , ingazí
 * Ntandu
 * , ingazí
 * Ntandu
 * , ingazí

From an Eastern Bantu sense "blood":
 * Lungu
 * Southern Bantu:
 * Sotho-Tswana:
 * Nguni:
 * Tswa-Ronga:
 * Nguni:
 * Tswa-Ronga:
 * Nguni:
 * Tswa-Ronga:
 * Nguni:
 * Tswa-Ronga:
 * Tswa-Ronga:
 * Tswa-Ronga:
 * Tswa-Ronga:
 * Tswa-Ronga:
 * Tswa-Ronga:
 * Tswa-Ronga:

Possibly related, although the sound change to the initial consonant of the stem would be highly irregular:
 * Sabaki:
 * Sabaki:
 * Sabaki:
 * Sabaki: