fotugol
Fula
Dialectal variants
- fotude (Maasina)
Etymology
From fot- + -u + -gol. Ultimately from Proto-Fula-Serer *foʈ (equal), whence also Serer fod (“to be equal to”).[1]
Verb
fotugol
- (Pular, intransitive) to be equal with, be equal to
- Onon ɗiɗo hiɗon fota.
- Both of you are equal.
- to be appropriate, suitable, worthy
- should
- Hiɗa foti haalande mo goonga on.
- You should tell him the truth.
Related terms
- fodde
- foddugol
- fonnditugol
- fonndugol
- fonnugol
- fota
- fotondiral
- fotondirgol
- potindiral
- pottal
References
- Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.
- ^ Konstantin Pozdniakov (2022) Proto-Fula–Sereer: Lexicon, morphophonology, and noun classes (Niger-Congo Comparative Studies), volume 3, Berlin, Germany: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 44