Swahili Puzzle

From here, Problem 2:

You are given words in Swahili: mtu, mbuzi, jito, mgeni, jitu and kibuzi. Their translations in a different order are: giant, little goat, guest, goat, person and large river. Make the correspondence.

 

mtu – person

jitu – giant

jito – large river

mbuzi – goat

kibuzi – little goat

mgeni – guest

 

With ‘tu’ being the word (root word?) for all things humanlike, buzi for goat.

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