entale
Galician edit
Verb edit
entale
- inflection of entalar:
Portuguese edit
Verb edit
entale
- inflection of entalar:
Tooro edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from en- (class 9 noun prefix) + Proto-Tale South Cushitic *-tale (“lion”). Cognate with Rwanda-Rundi intáre.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
entale class 9 (plural entale class 10, augmentless ntale, plural augmentless ntale)
- lion, member of the species Panthera leo
- Hyponym: engo (“leopard”)
- 2008, Ekitabu Ekirukwera N'Ebitabu Ebyeetwa Deturokanoniko/Apokurifa [Bible in Runyoro/Rutooro Interconfessional Translation], Bible Society of Uganda, Okusuukururwa 5:5:
- Nubwo omu ha bakuru yangambiire ati: “Leka kurra; orole Entale ey'orunganda rwa Yuda, Ekikoro kya Daudi, asingwire. Nahabweki uwe asobora kwanjurra omuzingo n'okubambura emanyiikirizo zagwo musanju.”
- Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.”
References edit
- Kaji, Shigeki (2007) A Rutooro Vocabulary[1], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, page 31
- Rubongoya, L. T. (2013) Katondogorozi y'Orunyoro-Rutooro n'Orungereza [Runyoro-Rutooro-English and English-Runyoro-Rutooro dictionary][2], Kampala: Modrug Publishers, →ISBN, page 294
- Schoenbrun, David (1993) “We Are What We Eat: Ancient Agriculture Between the Great Lakes”, in The Journal of African History, volume 4, number 1, pages 1–31