orutege

Tooro

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *ntégé (“bandy-legs; space behind knees; bend of a knee”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oɾutéɡe/

Noun

orutege class 11 (plural entege class 10, augmentless rutege, plural augmentless ntege)

1. (anatomy) popliteus, back of the knee

See also

• okuju (“knee”)

References

1. Kaji, Shigeki (2007) A Rutooro Vocabulary‎^[1], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, page 19
2. Entry 8068 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3