Ultimately from Proto-Fula-Serer *jaaw (Guinea fowl), whence also Serer saaw (“Guinea fowl”).[1]
jawlal ngal (plural jawle ɗe)
- (Pular) guinea fowl
- ^ Konstantin Pozdniakov (2022) Proto-Fula–Sereer: Lexicon, morphophonology, and noun classes (Niger-Congo Comparative Studies), volume 3, Berlin, Germany: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 326