rungi

Tooro

Etymology

From Common Bantu *-dʊngɪ (“good, beautiful”), from Proto-Bantu *-dʊ̀nga (“to be straight, right; to put straight, right”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɾúːŋɡi/

Adjective

-rungi (declinable)

  1. good
    Antonym: -bi
  2. beautiful, pretty
    Synonym: -ecumi (“clean, beautiful”)
    Antonyms: -rofu (“dirty, ugly”), -bi (“ugly”)

Declension
Inflected forms of -rungi
Noun class indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
1/2 murungi barungi omurungi abarungi
3/4 murungi mirungi omurungi emirungi
5/6 lirungi marungi erirungi amarungi
7/8 kirungi birungi ekirungi ebirungi
9/10 nungi nungi enungi enungi
11/10 rurungi orurungi
12/14 karungi burungi akarungi oburungi
13 turungi oturungi
14/6 burungi marungi oburungi amarungi
15/6 kurungi okurungi
16 harungi aharungi

Derived terms
  • kurungi (“well, in a good way”)

References
  1. Kaji, Shigeki (2007) A Rutooro Vocabulary‎, Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, page 377
  2. Entry 4483 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3
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