entaama

Tooro

entaama

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

1. sheep, member of the genus Ovis

See also

• embuzi (“goat”)

References

1. Kaji, Shigeki (2007) A Rutooro Vocabulary‎^[1], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, page 28
2. Entry 9217 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3