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ekun

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Mapudungun

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Verb

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ekun (Raguileo spelling)

  1. To respect.
  2. first-person singular realis form of ekun

Nupe

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Etymology 1

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Cognate with Gbari ekun, possibly related to Yoruba ogun.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ekun (plural ekunzhì)

  1. war
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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ekún (plural ekúnzhì)

  1. corpse

Nzadi

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Etymology

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From Proto-Bantu *dʊ̀kʊ́nì.

Noun

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ekûn (uncountable)

  1. firewood

Further reading

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  • Crane, Thera, Larry Hyman, Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN