esagama
التعريفات والمعاني
== Nyoro ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from an extinct Tale South Cushitic language; compare with Ma'a *sako. Ultimately from Proto-South Cushitic *sak (“blood”).
=== Noun ===
esagama class 9 (uncountable, augmentless sagama)
blood
=== References ===
An Elementary Lunyoro Grammar[1], 1938, pages 115, 125
An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400[2], 1998, pages 63, 325,
== Tooro ==
=== Alternative forms ===
(via metathesis) esamaga
=== Etymology ===
From an extinct Tale South Cushitic language; compare with Ma'a *sako. Ultimately from Proto-South Cushitic *sak (“blood”).
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /esaɡáma/
Rhymes: -áma
Hyphenation: e‧sa‧ga‧ma
=== Noun ===
esagama class 9 (uncountable, augmentless sagama)
blood
==== Hyponyms ====
emireju (“nosebleed”)
=== References ===
Kaji, Shigeki (2007), A Rutooro Vocabulary[3], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, page 24
Rubongoya, L. T. (2013), Katondogorozi y'Orunyoro-Rutooro n'Orungereza [Runyoro–Rutooro-English and English-Runyoro–Rutooro dictionary][4], Kampala: Modrug Publishers, →ISBN, page 354
Entry 9352 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3
An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400[5], 1998, pages 63, 325,