Some
Southern Cushitic parallels I
cf. Iraqw qeedi ‘small
house type’, qoori ‘round, mud-brick, thatched house’
house, dwelling
kelo, kelu
cf. Alagwa, Burunge
*fatl ‘to collect honey’, *fatlima ‘collected
honey’, with Cushitic cognates incl. Somali *fad’ ‘to scoop’.
of honey
*falahu
cf. Mbugu, Pare mborá
1/2 ‘girl’ (= Chaga woman); Dahalo b’óóra (singulative
b’óóreete) ‘boy’; Ma’a mburatú ‘boy’. See also
bada above for an alternative etymology
woman
barera
cf. Proto-Iraqw *badiissee ‘old men’ (>
Iraqw, Gorowa bariise), cognate with Proto-Sam *baro, Oromo baru ‘to learn’ (> Digo barobaro 5/6 ‘youth’). See under barera for an alternative etymology. Also possibly (by metathesis) Aasax dobon ‘young man’ reflected
in N. Somali dob ‘bachelor’; similarly Taita mdaßana ‘initiated youth’
< extinct Taita Cushitic
person
bada