tombo
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tombo (uncountable)
- (Namibia) A traditional sweet beer made from the bamboo palm.
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tombo (uncountable)
- (Namibia) tombo (a traditional sweet beer)
- 2004 April 26, “Lewe agter die tralies”, in Republikein:
- 'n KLOPJAG weens die vermoede dat tombo gestook word in die tronk, is die jongste grief op die vermeende Caprivi-afstigters in Grootfontein se klagtelys.
- A raid because of the suspicion that tombo is being brewed in jail, is the latest grief on the list of complaints of the alleged Caprivi separatists in Grootfontein.
- 2020 August 11, Spotprent, Republikein:
- Agt polisiebeamptes wat in April 'n man forseer het om in tombo te swem terwyl hulle hom beledig het, is steeds geskors.
- Eight police officers who in April forced a man to swim in tombo while they insulted him, are still suspended.
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tombo
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Borrowed from English tomb and French tombe.
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tombo (accusative singular tombon, plural tomboj, accusative plural tombojn)
- tomb, grave, sepulchre
- Holonym: tombejo (“cemetery”)
- Meronym: tomboŝtono (“tombstone”)
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tombo m (plural tombos)
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Possibly ultimately from Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “tomb”), but perhaps better from Proto-Celtic *tumbos (“mound”).[1] Cognate with Irish tom.
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tombo m (plural tombos)
- cartulary
- 1493, J. L. Novo Cazón, editor, El priorato santiaguista de Vilar de Donas en la Edad Media (1194-1500), A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 446:
- outorgamos duas cartas de aforamento, anbas en un tenor, huna para bos, o dicto Pero de Bilar, et outra para que fique enno tonbo do dicto moesteyro
- we grant two contractual charters, both having the same content, one for you, said Pedro de Vilar, and another for being kept at the cartulary of said monastery
- mound
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- tumbio (“heap of snow”)
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- “tombo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “tonbo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “tombo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “tombo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “tombo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “tumba”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
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From Esperanto tombo, from English tomb, French tombe, Italian tomba, Spanish tumba, from Latin tumba, from Ancient Greek τύμβα (túmba).
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tombo (plural tombi)
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- tombeyo (“graveyard, cemetery”)
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Hinde (1904) records toombo as an equivalent of English brain in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]
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- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩng'ang'i, ngũkũ, kĩeha, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
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tombo class 14 (plural matombo)
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- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 8–9. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.
- “tombo” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 458. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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tombo
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tombo m (plural tombos)
- tumble; fall
- an inventory of real estate
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tombo
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tombo m (plural tombos)
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tombo (plural matombo)