obune

Nyoro

Etymology

Borrowed from an extinct Central Sudanic language. Ultimately from Proto-Central Sudanic *-ɲe (“liver, spleen”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oβûne/

Noun

obune class 14 (uncountable, augmentless bune)

1. liver

References

• An Elementary Lunyoro Grammar‎, 1938, page 86
• An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400‎, 1998, page 303
• Shigeki Kaji (2018), “From Nyoro to Tooro: Historical and Phonetic Accounts of Tone Merger”, in Haruo Kubozono, Mikio Giriko, editors, Tonal Change and Neutralization, page 336

Tooro

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oβúne/

Noun

obune class 14 (uncountable, augmentless bune)

1. (anatomy) liver

See also

• omutima (“heart”)
• ekihaha (“lung”)
• endurwa (“bile, gall bladder”)
• obuta (“spleen”)

References

• Kaji, Shigeki (2007), A Rutooro Vocabulary‎, Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, pages 19-20