ekun

Mapudungun

Verb

ekun (Raguileo spelling)

  1. to respect

Nupe

Etymology 1

Cognate with Gbari ekun, possibly related to Yoruba ogun.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ē.kũ̄/

Noun

ekun (plural ekunzhì)

  1. war
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ē.kṹ/

Noun

ekún (plural ekúnzhì)

  1. corpse

Nzadi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *dʊ̀kʊ́nì.

Noun

ekûn (uncountable)

  1. firewood

Further reading

  • 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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