orususu

Tooro

Etymology

Two possibilities: from oru- (class 11 noun prefix) +‎ -susu (“tree bark; skin of a fruit/vegetable; pod of a bean; cast-off skin of a snake”) or inherited from Proto-Bantu *-cʊcʊ (“skin”), in which case it would be a doublet of ekisusu.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /oɾusúsu/

Noun

orususu class 11 (plural ensusu class 10, augmentless rususu, plural augmentless nsusu)

skin (of humans)
Synonym: omubiri (“body; human skin; substance; luck”)
flake of human skin

References

Kaji, Shigeki (2007) A Rutooro Vocabulary‎^[1], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, page 21
Rubongoya, L. T. (2013) Katondogorozi y'Orunyoro-Rutooro n'Orungereza [Runyoro–Rutooro-English and English-Runyoro–Rutooro dictionary]‎^[2], Kampala: Modrug Publishers, →ISBN, pages 293, 347
Entry 5279 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3