entaama

Borrowed from an extinct Tale South Cushitic language. Ultimately from Proto-South Cushitic *dama (“heifer”) or Proto-South Cushitic *dama- (“large kind of antelope”).

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

1. sheep

• An Elementary Lunyoro Grammar‎^[1], 1938, page 143
• Ehret, Christopher (1998), An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400‎^[2], United States: University Press of Virginia, →ISBN, page sheep

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

• IPA^(key): /entáːma/
• Rhymes: -áːma
• Hyphenation: e‧ntaa‧ma

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

1. sheep, member of the genus Ovis

• embuzi (“goat”)

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