entaama

Tooro
entaama

Etymology

Inherited from Common Bantu *ntààmà (“sheep”). Cognate with Rwanda-Rundi intāma.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /entáːma/
  • Rhymes: -áːma
  • Hyphenation: e‧ntaa‧ma

Noun

entaama class 9 (plural entaama class 10, augmentless ntaama, plural augmentless ntaama)

  1. sheep, member of the genus Ovis

See also

References
  1. Kaji, Shigeki (2007) A Rutooro Vocabulary‎, Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, page 28
  2. Entry 9217 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3
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