omushaija

Nyankole

Etymology

From Common Bantu *mʊ̀cáijà (“man”), from an extinct Tale South Cushitic language, ultimately from Proto-South Cushitic *sayg- (“mature young man”).

Pronunciation

  • (Bairu) IPA(key): /omuʃîːd͡ʒa/
  • (Bahima) IPA(key): /omuʃái̯d͡ʒa/, /omuʃéi̯d͡ʒa/

Noun

omushaija class 1 (plural abashaija class 2, augmentless mushaija, plural augmentless bashaija)

  1. man (adult male human)
  2. husband

References

  • An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400‎[1], 1998, pages 326, 135, 142
  • Kaji, Shigeki (2004) A Runyankore Vocabulary‎[2], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, page 201
  • Taylor, Charles V. (1998) A simplified Runyankore-Rukiga-English and English-Runyankore-Rukiga dictionary‎[3], Kampala: Fountain Publishers, →ISBN, page 115
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