linngii

Fula

Dialectal variants

liingu Adamawa, Fouta-Toro
linngu Maasina

Etymology

From Proto-Fula-Serer *li(ɓ), whence also Serer liɓ.^[1] Possibly cognate with Nalu lan.

Noun

linngii (plural liƴƴi) (pular)

fish

References

Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.

^ Konstantin Pozdniakov (2022) Proto-Fula–Sereer: Lexicon, morphophonology, and noun classes (Niger-Congo Compartative Studies), volume 3, Berlin, Germany: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 139

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