Why Didn’t the Tiv have a State?, em Why Nations Failed?:
Tsav means “power”, particularly power over others. (...)
The people will tsav belong to an organization — the mbatsav.
Mbatsav has two meanings:
- Powerful people (it is the plural of tsav)
- A group of witches organized for nefarious purposes (robbing graves to eat the corpses)
Now this is a pretty interesting double meaning. Imagine if in English the word “politicians” simultaneously meant “people who contest for or control political offices” and “A group of witches organized for nefarious purposes (robbing graves to eat the corpses)”!
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