omukama

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Tooro

Omukama wa Tooro

Etymology

From Common Bantu *mʊ̀káma (“chief, master”), from Proto-Bantu *káma (“squeeze, wring”). Doublet of -kama (“to milk”).

Pronunciation

Noun

omukama class 1 (plural abakama class 2, augmentless mukama, plural augmentless bakama)

  1. king, monarch

Derived terms

References

  1. Kaji, Shigeki (2007) A Rutooro Vocabulary‎, Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, page 200
  2. Rubongoya, L. T. (2013) Katondogorozi y'Orunyoro-Rutooro n'Orungereza [Runyoro–Rutooro-English and English-Runyoro–Rutooro dictionary]‎, Kampala: Modrug Publishers, →ISBN, pages 32, 249, 305
  3. Entry 8234 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3
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