rungi

Tooro

Etymology

From Common Bantu *-dʊngɪ (“good, beautiful”), from Proto-Bantu *-dʊ̀nga (“to be straight, right; to put straight, right”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɾúːŋɡi/

Adjective

-rungi (declinable)

1. good

   Antonym: -bi

2. beautiful, pretty

   Synonym: -ecumi (“clean, beautiful”)

   Antonyms: -rofu (“dirty, ugly”), -bi (“ugly”)

Declension

Inflected forms of -rungi

Noun class	indefinite		definite
	singular	plural	singular	plural
1/2	murungi	barungi	omurungi	abarungi
3/4	murungi	mirungi	omurungi	emirungi
5/6	lirungi	marungi	erirungi	amarungi
7/8	kirungi	birungi	ekirungi	ebirungi
9/10	nungi	nungi	enungi	enungi
11/10	rurungi		orurungi
12/14	karungi	burungi	akarungi	oburungi
13		turungi		oturungi
14/6	burungi	marungi	oburungi	amarungi
15/6	kurungi		okurungi
16	harungi		aharungi

Derived terms

• kurungi (“well, in a good way”)

References

1. Kaji, Shigeki (2007) A Rutooro Vocabulary‎^[1], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, page 377
2. Entry 4483 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3