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Mapudungun
Verb
ekun (Raguileo spelling)
- To respect.
- first-person singular realis form of ekun
Nupe
Etymology 1
Cognate with Gbari ekun, possibly related to Yoruba ogun.
Pronunciation
Noun
ekun (plural ekunzhì)
- war
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
ekún (plural ekúnzhì)
- corpse
Nzadi
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *dʊ̀kʊ́nì.
Noun
ekûn (uncountable)
- firewood
Further reading
- Crane, Thera, Larry Hyman, Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi : a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN