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Tooro
Etymology
Two possibilities: from oru- (class 11 noun prefix) + -susu (“tree bark; skin of a fruit/vegetable; pod of a bean; cast-off skin of a snake”) or inherited from Proto-Bantu *-cʊcʊ (“skin”), in which case it would be a doublet of ekisusu.
Pronunciation
Noun
orususu class 11 (plural ensusu class 10, augmentless rususu, plural augmentless nsusu)
- skin (of humans)
- Synonym: omubiri (“body; human skin; substance; luck”)
- flake of human skin
References
- Kaji, Shigeki (2007) A Rutooro Vocabulary, Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, page 21
- Rubongoya, L. T. (2013) Katondogorozi y'Orunyoro-Rutooro n'Orungereza [Runyoro–Rutooro-English and English-Runyoro–Rutooro dictionary], Kampala: Modrug Publishers, →ISBN, pages 293, 347
- Entry 5279 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3