ekika

== Japanese == === Romanization === ekika Rōmaji transcription of えきか == Luganda == === Etymology === From Proto-Great Lakes Bantu *ka (head of cattle, homestead). Borrowed from an extinct Sog Eastern Sudanic language which originally meant "cattle camp"; compare with Proto-Songhay *ga/*ka:h (“cattle camp or homestead”). Cognate with Rwanda-Rundi inká (“cow, cattle”), Gusii inka (“home”) and Lamba icinka (“cattle camp”). Doublet of amaka (“homestead”) and ka (“at home”, adverb). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ecikâ/ === Noun === ekika (class IV, plural ebika, base state kika, plural base state bika) clan family === References === Snoxall, R. A. (1967), Luganda-English Dictionary - with an Introduction on the Tonal System, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 133 Murphy, John D. (1972), Luganda-English Dictionary, United States: The Catholic University of America Press, →ISBN, page 190 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 An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400‎[1], 1998, pages 60, 306