tombo
Contents
CatalanEdit
EsperantoEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English tomb and French tombe.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tombo (accusative singular tombon, plural tomboj, accusative plural tombojn)
MeronymsEdit
- tomboŝtono (“tombstone”)
HolonymsEdit
- tombejo (“cemetery”)
Derived termsEdit
IdoEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Esperanto tombo, from English tomb, French tombe, Italian tomba, Spanish tumba, from Latin tumba, from Ancient Greek τύμβα (túmba).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tombo (plural tombi)
Derived termsEdit
- tombeyo (“graveyard, cemetery”)
KikuyuEdit
EtymologyEdit
Hinde (1904) records toombo as an equivalent of English brain in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]
PronunciationEdit
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩng'ang'i, ngũkũ, kĩeha, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
NounEdit
tombo class 14 (plural matombo)
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 8–9. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.
- “tombo” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 458. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
LinduEdit
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
Back-formation from tombar.
NounEdit
tombo m (plural tombos)
- tumble; fall
- an inventory of real estate
VerbEdit
tombo