Dimanyisha dia kuinshi

a Mu tshiambilu etshi “tshipungu etshi,” mupinganyi mufunkunyi wa mushindu kampanda houʹtos udi wakanangana bimpe ne muaku wa mu Anglais mukudimuna ne: “etshi.” Udi mua kufunkuna tshintu kampanda tshidiku mpindieu anyi tshidi kumpala kua muakudi. Kadi udi kabidi mua kuikala ne mumvuija makuabu. Mukanda wa Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament (1991) udi uleja ne: “Muaku [houʹtos] udi ufunkuna muanda wa mpindieu menemene. Nunku tshiambilu [aion houʹtos] ‘mbulongolodi budiku lelu’eu’ ebu . . . ne [geneaʹ haute] ‘ntshipungu tshidi ne muoyo mpindieu’ etshi (Tshilejilu, Mat 12:41 note wa kuinshi, 45; 24:34)” Mushikuluji George B. Winer udi ufunda ne: “Mupinganyi [houʹtos] imue misangu utu ufunkuna, ki mmuaku mutambe kuikala pabuipi, kadi mmuaku mutambe kuikala kule, uvua, bu tshiena-bualu tshia kumpala, mutamba kuikala pabuipi mu lungenyi, mupite yonso kuikala mu meji a mufundi.”​—Mukanda wa A Grammar of the Idiom of the New Testament, mfundilu wa 7, 1897.