esagama
Nyoro
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from an extinct Tale South Cushitic language. Ultimately from Proto-South Cushitic *sak (“blood”).
Noun
[edit]esagama class 9 (uncountable, augmentless sagama)
References
[edit]- An Elementary Lunyoro Grammar[1], 1938, pages 115, 125
- An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400[2], 1998, pages 63, 325,
Tooro
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (via metathesis) esamaga
Etymology
[edit]From an extinct Tale South Cushitic language. Ultimately from Proto-South Cushitic *sak (“blood”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]esagama class 9 (uncountable, augmentless sagama)
Hyponyms
[edit]- emireju (“nosebleed”)
References
[edit]- Kaji, Shigeki (2007) A Rutooro Vocabulary[3], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, page 24
- Rubongoya, L. T. (2013) Katondogorozi y'Orunyoro-Rutooro n'Orungereza [Runyoro–Rutooro-English and English-Runyoro–Rutooro dictionary][4], Kampala: Modrug Publishers, →ISBN, page 354
- Entry 9352 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3
- An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400[5], 1998, pages 63, 325,
Categories:
- Nyoro terms derived from South Cushitic languages
- Nyoro terms derived from Proto-South Cushitic
- Nyoro lemmas
- Nyoro nouns
- Nyoro class 9 nouns
- Nyoro uncountable nouns
- Tooro terms derived from South Cushitic languages
- Tooro terms derived from Proto-South Cushitic
- Tooro terms with IPA pronunciation
- Tooro lemmas
- Tooro nouns
- Tooro class 9 nouns
- Tooro uncountable nouns
- ttj:Blood
- ttj:Bodily fluids