Etymograph

English

agogwe

Agogwe comes from Kuria agogwe.

  1. Kuriamodernagogwe
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1984same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Kuriamodernagogwe
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1984same form

Earliest quotation: 1984, Janet Bord, Colin Bord: “They were, he said, agogwe, the little furry men…”

Today it means

noun A supposed small human-like biped reported from the forests of East Africa, said to have long rust-coloured woolly hair and yellowish-red skin.

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

Etymograph / Kuria agogwe / agogwe