ekun

Mapudungun

Verb

ekun (Raguileo spelling)

1. To respect.
2. first-person singular realis form of ekun

Nupe

Etymology 1

Cognate with Gbari ekun, possibly related to Yoruba ogun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ē.kũ̄/

Noun

ekun (plural ekunzhì)

1. war

Derived terms

• ekungùn (“warring”)
• ekungùnci (“warrior”)
• kùngun (“to fight a war”)

 

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ē.kṹ/

Noun

ekún (plural ekúnzhì)

1. corpse

Nzadi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *dʊ̀kʊ́nì.

Noun

ekûn (uncountable)

1. firewood

Further reading

• Crane, Thera, Larry Hyman, Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN