omuguta

Tooro

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /omuɡúta/

Noun

omuguta class 3 (plural emiguta class 4, augmentless muguta, plural augmentless miguta)

1. uncured skin
2. skin (of animals), hide

   Synonym: oruhu

   Coordinate terms: omubiri (“human skin; body; substance; luck”), orususu (“human skin; flake of human skin”)

   1. fresh cow skin when slaughtered
3. corpse of a monarch

References

1. Kaji, Shigeki (2007) A Rutooro Vocabulary‎^[1], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, page 21
2. Rubongoya, L. T. (2013) Katondogorozi y'Orunyoro-Rutooro n'Orungereza [Runyoro–Rutooro-English and English-Runyoro–Rutooro dictionary]‎^[2], Kampala: Modrug Publishers, →ISBN, page 244