Etymograph

English

Luganda

Luganda comes from Luganda Oluganda.

  1. LugandamodernOluganda
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2020Luganda

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. LugandamodernOluganda
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2020Luganda

Earliest quotation: 2020, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, The First Woman: “Then it dawned on her. He did not know…”

Every English word from Luganda Oluganda

Another origin of Luganda

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*lengʷʰ-uncertain
  2. Proto-Balto-Slavicc. 2000–500 BCE*lunˀgasuncertain
  3. Proto-Slavicc. 400–900 CE*lǫgъ‘depression (in land), lowland, meadow, valley’uncertain
  4. Ukrainianmodernлугluh‘meadow’uncertain
  5. Ukrainian, derivedmodernЛуга́нськLuhánsʹkuncertain
  6. EnglishtodayLuganda

Today it means

name A Bantu language spoken mostly in Uganda.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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