omusanju

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Tooro

Tooro numbers (edit)
70
 ←  6 7 8  → 
    Cardinal: musanju
    Ordinal: -a musanju
    Adverbial: emirundi musanju
    Collective: omusanju
    Fractional: ekicweka ekya musanju

Etymology

From Proto-Rutara *omušanǰu, from Proto-Bantu *-cambu (seven), from Proto-Bantu *-càmba (to leap over).

Pronunciation

Noun

omusanju class 3 (plural emisanju class 4, augmentless musanju, plural augmentless misanju)

  1. A group of seven persons or things.

References

  1. Entry 8434 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3
  2. Kaji, Shigeki (2007) A Rutooro Vocabulary, Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, page 151