emboni

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Tooro[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *mbónì, from Proto-Bantu *-bóna (“to see”). Cognate with Swahili mboni. Doublet of -bona (“to see; to suffer”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

emboni class 9 (plural emboni class 10, augmentless mboni, plural augmentless mboni)

  1. pupil (of the eye)

References[edit]

  1. Kaji, Shigeki (2007) A Rutooro Vocabulary‎[1], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, page 4
  2. Entry 267 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3
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