obune

Borrowed from an extinct Central Sudanic language. Ultimately from Proto-Central Sudanic *-ŋe (“liver, spleen”).

obune class 14 (uncountable, augmentless bune)

1. liver

• An Elementary Lunyoro Grammar‎^[1], 1938, page 86
• An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400‎^[2], 1998, page 303

• IPA^(key): /oβúne/

obune class 14 (uncountable, augmentless bune)

1. (anatomy) liver

• omutima (“heart”)
• ekihaha (“lung”)
• endurwa (“bile, gall bladder”)
• obuta (“spleen”)

• Kaji, Shigeki (2007), A Rutooro Vocabulary‎^[3], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, pages 19-20