Crossword-Solution: MPA 3 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Thus: ¡Oh Antìlla dichòsa! | ¿qué màgicos sònes, Qué lùz inefàble, | qué extràña alegrìa, Del cièlo destièrran los nègros crespònes, Prestàndo á esta nòche | la pòmpa del dìa? ¿Por qué tan ufàna, | tan bèlla la lùna Con fàz refulgènte | comiènza su gìro, Y no hày leve sòmbra | que crùce importùna Su tròno esmaltàdo | de plàta y zafìro? (Avellaneda, _Serenata de Cuba_) [Footnote 41: Iriarte, of course, had written a fable or two in _arte mayor_ verse.

There is too much evidence in favour of this prefix having been originally _Pa-_ or _Mpa-pa_ to enable us to give it any other form in reconstructing the Bantu mother-tongue.

The name "Fang" is spelled variously: by the traveller Du Chaillu, "Fañ"; by the French traveller, Count de Brazza, "Pahouin"; by their Benga neighbors, "Pangwe"; and by the Mpongwe, "Mpañwe." These tribes all have traditions of their having come from the far Northeast.

Alavant, the ghost of a woman dying at childbirth or during her menses, lives in the Nágchámpa, Surang and the Kájra trees.

Finnish possesses a comparative and superlative, both having the termination =mpa=, the comparative being distinguished by the addition of the letter =i= before this suffix.