Sabaki
origins of animal names
Richardson (1885: 43) defines this as the name of a bird. < ?*andeke<
Swahili ndege (9/10) ‘bird’. This is an innovation in the southern dialects of Swahili, probably borrowed from one of the mainland Bantu languages [N&H]
Pteropodidae
Fruit
bats
andrehy
? < p-SAB ?*mpungi (9/10) ‘monkey sp.’ as seen inSwahili (Unguja) kima punju (9/10) ‘Zanzibar
red colobus, Colobus kirkii’. cf. Nyakyusa kipunji
(7/8) ‘Highland
mangabey, Rungwecebus
kipunji’ [Davenport et al.]
Avahi laniger
Eastern avahi
ampongy
