ekika

Japanese

Romanization

ekika

  1. Rōmaji transcription of えきか

Luganda

Etymology

Borrowed from an extinct Sog Eastern Sudanic language which originally meant "cattle camp"; compare with Proto-Songhay *ga/*ka:h (“cattle camp or homestead”). Cognate with Rwanda-Rundi inká (“cow, cattle”), Gusii inka (“home”) and Lamba icinka (“cattle camp”). Doublet of amaka (“homestead”) and ka (“at home”, adverb).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ecikâ/

Noun

ekika (class IV, plural ebika, base state kika, plural base state bika)

  1. clan
  2. family

References

  • Snoxall, R. A. (1967) Luganda-English Dictionary - with an Introduction on the Tonal System, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 133
  • Murphy, John D. (1972) Luganda-English Dictionary, United States: The Catholic University of America Press, →ISBN, page 190
  • Schoenbrun, David (1993) “We Are What We Eat: Ancient Agriculture Between the Great Lakes”, in The Journal of African History, volume 4, number 1, pages 1–31
  • An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400‎[1], 1998, pages 60, 306
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