entaama

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Tooro

entaama

Etymology

Inherited from Common Bantu *ntààmà (sheep). Cognate with Rwanda-Rundi intāma.

Pronunciation

Noun

entaama class 9 (plural entaama class 10, augmentless ntaama, plural augmentless ntaama)

  1. sheep, member of the genus Ovis

See also

References

  1. Kaji, Shigeki (2007) A Rutooro Vocabulary, Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, page 28
  2. Entry 9217 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3