ettooma

Luganda

Etymology

Borrowed from an extinct Central Sudanic language. Compare with Lese itumu (“rain forest”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /etːóːmâ/

Noun

ettooma (class V, plural amatooma, base state ttooma, plural base state matooma)

  1. second-growth forest (a forest which has been harvested and regrowing)

References

  • Snoxall, R. A. (1967) Luganda-English Dictionary - with an Introduction on the Tonal System, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 317
  • Early history in eastern Africa’s Great Lakes region: Linguistic, ecological, and archaeological approaches, ca. 500 B.C. to ca. A.D. 1000‎[1], 1990, page 578
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