ekun

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Mapudungun[edit]

Verb[edit]

ekun (Raguileo spelling)

  1. To respect.
  2. first-person singular realis form of ekun

Nupe[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Cognate with Gbari ekun, possibly related to Yoruba ogun.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ekun (plural ekunzhì)

  1. war
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ekún (plural ekúnzhì)

  1. corpse

Nzadi[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Bantu *dʊ̀kʊ́nì.

Noun[edit]

ekûn (uncountable)

  1. firewood

Further reading[edit]

  • Crane, Thera, Larry Hyman, Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN
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