omushaija

== Nyankole == === Etymology === From Common Bantu *mʊ̀cáijà (“man”), from an extinct Tale South Cushitic language, ultimately from Proto-South Cushitic *sayg- (“mature young man”). === Pronunciation === (Bairu) IPA(key): /omuʃîːd͡ʒa/ (Bahima) IPA(key): /omuʃái̯d͡ʒa/, /omuʃéi̯d͡ʒa/ === Noun === omushaija class 1 (plural abashaija class 2, augmentless mushaija, plural augmentless bashaija) man (adult male human) husband === References === An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400‎[1], 1998, pages 326, 135, 142 Kaji, Shigeki (2004), A Runyankore Vocabulary‎[2], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, page 201 Taylor, Charles V. (1998), A simplified Runyankore-Rukiga-English and English-Runyankore-Rukiga dictionary‎[3], Kampala: Fountain Publishers, →ISBN, page 115