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nóonòo
a word from vocabulary
Hausa
by
Ari Awagana
and
H. Ekkehard Wolff
with
Doris Löhr
cite
Word form
nóonòo
LWT meaning(s)
the breast
the milk
Word meaning
the breast
Analyzability
unanalyzable
Age
Afro-Asiatic [4] (-15000–-7000)
Loanword Information
Borrowed status
4. very little evidence for borrowing
Comments
areal: Skinner 1996 (p. 209) */amam- (Proto Afro-Asiatic Orel/ Stolbova) *canon- „breast“ (Proto Afro-Asiatic Orel/ Stolbova) nono (Mande, Bambara, P.Mandekan) neÜne “mother” (Poular) *-ninu “mother” (Proto west Nigritic) naÜnu “téter” (Zarma) non-, nan-, nuw«n “mother” (Bole-Tangle gr.) nuwo “mother” (Bacama) num “melken” (Buduma, Logone) *nunu’ “suck breast” (Proto South Cushitic) *anuÜna“breast”(Proto Highland East Cushitic) *nuÜg- “suck” (Proto East Cushitic) *n-gw-, *Ngw- “nipple, breast, suck(le) (Proto Cushitic) naÜi(y) “milk (vb.)” (Bedauye) nugw “nipple” (Bedauye) s + neq “suckle” (Egyptian)
Source words
Unidentifiable
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