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Nyoro
Etymology
Borrowed from an extinct Tale South Cushitic language. Ultimately from Proto-South Cushitic *p'aara (“termite”).
Noun
embara class 9 (plural embara class 10, augmentless mbara, plural augmentless mbara)
- Termite mound, fly
References
- An Elementary Lunyoro Grammar, 1938, page 106
- An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400, 1998, page 308